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Hymenoptera, May 15, superseding Mr.-Viereck, who re- 
Be enenes from the Bureau. 
ow. BE. G. Smyth, for several years attached to the Sta- 
on at Brownsville, Tex., has resigned to accept a similar 
tion in Porto Rico. : 
" An interesting letter has just been received from Mr. 
rege R. Smith, who was formerly with the Salt Lake, Utah, 
tation, but who resigned to accept a position with the GOV- 
ernment of Argentina. 
oo 
B= Mr. A. F. Satterthwait, Harrisburg, Pa., has been ap- 
pointed as an expert.in Cereal and Forage Insect Investiga- 
_ tions and will go on duty at La Fayette, Indiana, assisting 
ur. Davis in Lachnosterna investigations. 
Mr. J. R. Malloch has prepared a revision of the dip- 
; - ¢erous genus Agromyza which will be preinted in the September 
as of Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 
pee Same author is engaced on a revision of the Oscinidae. 
a 1. 4H. Parks, who has been in charge of the Station at 
Greenwood, Miss., since its establishment last autumn, has 
| resigned to accept a position in Idaho. ir. Parks will make 
-@ faithful officer wherever he goes and he will take with him 
the best wishes of this section of the Bureau. 
ae ‘Numerous observations have been made during April on the 
eondition of the fall army worm, from which, as will be seen, 
it is exceedingly doubtful if the Species winters north of 
the latitude of Florida. 
Sy | Mr. W. B. Hall, Wakeman, Ohio, gathered a large number 
of pupae last fall and placed them in the ground , but not a 
| Single individual appears to have survived. My co, ds, Paitidps 
meewno Visited South Bend, Ind., on April 18, could not find a 
single live pupa; all were dead. Those that were being carried 
2 pee oven at La Payette, Ind., also perished. 
No trace of live pupae of Laphygma has Roee Er euad at Chilli- 
_cothe, Mo., where fields of young fall wheat were destroyed last 
ate Mr. Luginbill states that while moths were observed at 
eceembie Bic Oia ¢ the latter part of November, so far as his 
- observations have gone the species does not winter over at 
an that point. He states also that Dr. Hinds informed him that 
_ the same conditons applied to Alabama, presumably in the 
mm Vicinity of Auburn. 
1 Thus we have, so far, no definite proof that Laphygma 
 Lrugiperda survives the winter north of Florida and southern 
B ‘Texas. 
