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‘should also be submitted to the Secretary's office before be- 
forwarded for publication, 
Very respectfully, 
(Signed) B. T. Galloway, 
, ee! | Assistant Secretary. 
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dD. F. Houston 
Secretary. 
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or 
ai; ‘With outbreaks of grasshoppers in New Mexico and Idaho , 
f the true army worm in Virginia, and of MYOCHROUS DENTICOLLIS 
n Arkansas, the prospects are for a busy summer for entomologists. 
One of the first surprises of the season has been the find—- 
} by Messrs. Kelly and King, of a wireworm, CARDIOPHORUS sp.(?) 
tiactructivs abundance, by the latter about Charleston, Mo., and 
y the former at Tuckerman, Ark., arid Pryor, Okla. At Tuckerman 
ese larvae were found from 2 t0 44 per hill of corn. Heretofore 
@ bere received but a single complaint of injury to corn from 
RDILOPHORUS larvae and this came from North Carolina. ‘Doctor 
o in his bulletin on corn insects, states that it had been 
met by nin as such but once, 
‘The following note will indicate the progress of the consign- 
Bt of APHIDIUS TESTACHIPES mentioned in the May number of the 
ews-Letter: 
® "i have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the lst 
Ot May, and to inform you that the parasites were duly received 
and have been trans-shipped for East Africa. We have to thank you 
or "behalf of the Government of the Hast Africa Protectorate for the 
cm rouble which you have taken in the matter." 
(Signed) Crown Agents for the Colonies, 
Whitehall Gardens, 
London, S. W. 
Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. ¢. 
Office of Assistant Secretary. 
May 10, 1913. 
MEMORANDUM NO. 19. 
(Re pass: Shipments of Government acre tz) 

Attention of the various offices and bureaus of the 
tme at is called to the attached copy*of a memorandum. 
the Solicitor in regard to the shipment of an instrument, 
Weather Buz m2) Tampa, Florida, which was lost en 
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