MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 


























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March, 1917, 
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a W. R. WALTON SUCCEEDS THE LATE PROF. F. M, WEBSTER. tea H Pek 
Mr. W. R. Walton, after having served for more than a year.as "Acting in 
harge Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations," has beeii-placed "In Charge" of | 
se investigations. Mr. Walton, as is well known to members of the Bureau/ 
force, was closely associated with Prof. F. M. Webster in his executive adminis- / 
tration of this section of the Bureau for two years before the latter's lamented 
death, and thus gained the experience and the personal knowledge of the executive 
work and the investigators connected with the section necessary to enable him to 
carry on the office with the least waste of energy. His standing as an entomolo- 
gist Be his op training in the Bureau have well fitted him to take up this 
pork, {£b. 0, H. 
ALL TELEGRAMS TO BE STAMPED. 
qi Field employees are requested to either stamp or write the words "Official 
Business - Bureau of Entomology" on all official telegrams. This will facili- 
tate the work in distributing telegrams to the different Bureaus when they are 
received for payment at the central accounting 
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a PENALTY ENVELOPES AND LABELS, 
. Attention is called to paragraph 104 of Secretary's Memorandum No. 143 
(Amendment No. 1 to Administrative Regulations) dated July 1, 1915, which states 
~~ “Penalty envelopes or penalty labels must not be furnished 
merchants or others from whom articler are purchased for the 
delivery of such articles by transmission through the mails," 
The use of penalty labels for this purpose is in violation of the postal 
regulations. 
AUGUST BUSCK GOES TO MEXICO. 
Arrangements have been made through the Department of State for a trip 
50 northern Mexico by August Busck. He will spend some weeks studying the 
ent of the infestation by the pink bollworm, and the feasibility of eradi- 
eation, He will visit Monterey, San Pedro, and Torreon, in the vicinity of 
which places Egyptian cotton has been planted. 
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; "THE HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT." 
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' A publication of more than ordinary interest to entomological workers | 
has appeared in the Hymenoptera or wasp-like insects of Connecticut, by 
y Lorenz Viereck, Assistant Biologist, U. 8. Biological Survey, with the 
collaboration of Dr, A. D. MacGillivray, Ph. D., University of Illinois; C. T. 
Brues, M. S., Harvard University; W. M, Wheeler, Ph. D., Harvard University; 
and S. A. Rohwer, U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 
4 Th volume is published as Part IIL, Guide to the Insects of Connecticut, 
State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No, 22, It consists of 824 
pages including 10 plates and several text figures illustrating the taxonomy as 
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