
° et iw eke ; " * amine ck we 
rs. ey. . Pitts, of the range caterpillar investigation 
Henry R. Jennings, of the alfalfa weevil investigation force, 
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ily, J. Bower, a graduate in Entomology at the Texas Agricul- 
Bolicce, has been appointed te this Section and attached to the: 
ngton, Kans., station. 
The terrible drought in Kansas is very seriously interfering with 
work of Mr. Kelly and the rest of the laboratory force.at Welling- 
meen if it does not make a temporary removal to some othe point 
nd > 
ue. Geo. I. Reeves spent some time during September in oregon 
Washing son looking up a number of matters, among them what appears 
an outbreak of the clover flower midge in the Willamette Val- 
oy. : 
SA rather serious outbreak of the chinch bug occurred during early 
Gember in pastures on the onion atid eee of the Bureau of 
met industry at Denison, Tex., and was investigated from our 
_ Kans., station. 
"Messrs. John R. Sandige, Irving R. Crawford, F. H. Gates, E. J. 
he, Sean Hukill, J. H. Newton, and Arthur Matthiesen, short term 
a have all returned to their co llege and university work, Mr. 
) Rosewall goes to take up his work as instructor in entomology 
the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. | 
Mic. . N. Ainslie has recently found that larvae of Diabrotica 
ee have done a pa deal of damage to growing corn in South 
/Dakota and eastern Nebraska, and has found adults scattered over 
uthern Minnesota. wo George G. Ainslie is finding the same insect 
peting corn on bottom lands in Tennessee, while he finds that the 
a are common in similar localities in ‘Kentucky. 
> will he a matter of interest to all to know that Dr. Hewitt, 
omologist of the Dominion of Oanada, is organizing a series of 
id laboratories and stations patterned after those in the United. 
tes. Dr. Hewitt is to be congratulated on securing such a promis- 
Flot of young g0210Ne as he now has working under him and laying 
F foundation for future work, which surely will make its influence 
in Canadia Rar y. Doctor and Mrs. Hewitt expect to visit some 
our field stations, notably at Salt Lake, during the current month. 
| Mr. Hyslop made a trip to Bridgeport, N. ¥., to continue ob- 
evations on white grubs. | 
The rearing of an egg parasite of the chinch bug, in Kansas, 
hs Jas. W. McColloch, of the Kansas Agricultural College, de- 
fered Dyeomr, A. B. Gahan of this section as Eumicrosoma benifica, 
genus and species, is an interesting find and serves to show that 
oe still opportunity for profitable studies among even our 
it and supposedly bast known insects. 
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