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C, wv. Surtin, a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and 
formerly employed in Soutn taraniee in the extensional work of this branch of 
the Bureau, has been appointed scientific assistant pending certification and 
assigned to the corn borer work in eastern Massachusetts. His headquarters © 
wi {11 be Arlington, Maes. D 
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LISCELLANEOUS INSECT INVESTIG ta aa 
The. following notes are from specialists in. Pst Bureau working on col- 
lections in the Division of Insects, United States National Museun! 
Dr. C, H. T. Townsend: has’ accepted a& position in Brazil as official en= 
tomologist’ to the Sao Paulo State ennmees. He is scheduled to sail from New 
York on April 4. . 
A, N, Caudell is attempting ih maintain an index to literature pertain- 
ing to the Orthoptera, Separates of articles touching in any way on this sub- 
ject, especially from non-entomological publications, will bé highly appreciated 
Dr. ‘R, 5S. McBwen of Oberlin College has been given a temporary appointment 
as artist, He'is drawing ants under the direction of Dr, W.‘M. Mann. 
Dr. G. C. Crampton of Amherst, Mass,, spent a few days at the ‘Mus eum 

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studying. the structures of certain of the lower insects, ! 
Lieut. H.-H. Knight, recently discharged, from the aviation service, spent 
March 13 and 14 looking avert certain: type. specimens in Miridae, Hemiptera, 
¥,.H. Gibson wotuld call attention. to a recent article by Wm. T. Davis en= 
title "Mississippi ghee id with a key to the svecies of southeastern United — 
States," in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume 26, pages 
141- EGE This is a much needed treatice and should be of interest to all who 
are in any way concerned with insects of this group, | ) f 
"Local Notes" of the Smithsonian Institution for March 20 is a newsy pro-= 
duction of seven pages, These notes are to appear hereafter every two weeks, | 


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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT ee 
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A. L. Quaintance, Entomologist in Charge 
A laboratory has been’ established soe cade at Yakima, Wash., for the 
investigation of the codling moth in cooperation with the Washington Agri- 
cultural College, <Attertion will be given to the life history of the insect in 
the Yakima Valley, and also tc large-scale spraying experiments in orchards. 
H. J. Newcomer ‘and W. D. Whitcomb have been assigned to the work from ‘the Bureau 
of Entomology. . Pit , is | 
H, K, Plank, after a stay of some weeks in Washington, D. C., has return= 
ed to Seaview, Wash,, to resume the investigation .of cranberry insects, which is 
being carried ches as cooperation with the’ Washington Agricultural College. Mr. 
Plank will also keep in touch with the codling moth work. in the Yakima Valley. 
In ccoporation with the Delaware Agricultural Colleg e, a laboratory has 
been established for work with the codling moth, which in that State has been 
very destructive during recent years, E, R, Selkrege and B, R, Leach have been 
assigned to the work, with headqua ters at Dover, Del. | 
| B, A. Porter, who was temporarily in Washington, has now returned to 
Wallingford, Conn,, his permanent headavarters, ; 
tyres Alden, who was reinstated after a short period of service in the 
Army, is now at Wallingford, Conn,, where he will assist in connection with ap= _ 
ple insect investigations at that vlace, / 
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