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John Stuart. Pinckney, a graduate of Clemson College, Se Cs, has been 
appointed field assistant and assigned to the Wichita, Kanse, laboratory 
for duty on the Hessian fly investigations under J. R. Horton. Mre 
Pinckney reported for duty July 226 
F OCA AKAAAASA AALS 
TRUCK=CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Fe He Chittenden, Entomologist in Charges 
De Me Dowdell, jre, and M. P. Foshee have been appointed to act 
as district inspectors in connection with new infestations of the 
Mexican bean beetle. 
F. M. Hull has been appointed to assist M. M. High, in charge of 
the laboratory at Kingsville, Texe, in experimental work on the 
sweet=potato weevil and truck-crop insects in the Rio Grande Valleye 
J. E. Graf, in charge of field work in Mexican bean beetle cortrol 
at Birmingham, Alas, and B. Le Boyden, in charge of sveet=potato 
weevil eradication in Florida, visited Washington for the purpose 
of conferring with Bureau officials regarding the work which they have 
been conducting during the past few seasons, discussing the results 
attained, and mapping out their plan of work for the coming seasone 
FE. M. Searls has been transferred from the correborer work in 
Massachusetts to Madison, Wis., to assist J. E. Dudley, jr», in the 
investigation of.the potato leafhopper and the striped cucumber beetle. 
J. We McGlamery has been appointed to the position of scientific 
assistant in entomology, to assist B. Le Boyden in the sweet=potato 
weevil eradication work in Floridae 
R. H. Turner and W. Pe Whitlock have been appointed as field assis= 
tants in Mexican bean beetle control, to conduct scouting in the 
infested territorys 
Prof, He Fe. Wickham of Iowa State University has received a tem= 
porary appointment with this office for the purpose of making a trip 
+o Mexico the latter part of July to secure parasites and other natural 
enemies of the ladybirds of the genus Epilachna for introduction into 
the region infested by the Mexican bean beetle in the southeastern 
States.e Professor Wickham is well known to entomologists as a 
collector and has had considerable experience with the Coleoptera of 
Bouthern Mexicoe He will enter Mexico at Vera Cruz and work in 
southern Mexico and Guatemala during his engagement with the Bureau 
of Entomologye M. M. High will accompany Professor Wickham on this 
investigation and will also devote some time to the natural enemies 
of the Colorado potato beetle and related species of Leptinotarsa, 
many of which inhabit the same regions as Epilactna. A look-out will 
be kept for natural enemies of the sweet=potato weevil. If anything 
promising is found along this line which could be safely introduced 
into the United States for the repression of these three pests, Mre 
High will be able to continue this work when Professor Wickham is 
