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seasons of the year, for the purpose of determining the best method of prevent-— 
ing injury by ambrosia beetles, While in the South he spent a day at New 
Orleans attending the meetings of the Southern Logrineg Congress and gave a 
short talk on forest insect losses in the South and methods of prevention. 
MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum Contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
C. F. W. Maesbeck, of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, 
Masse, Spent about three weeks during October in the Division of Insects 
| Stadying the collection of Braconinae with a view to the publication of a 
revision of this group. 
News has been received of the marriaze of Miss Maré zaret Fagan, formerly 
of the Division of Insects, and J. J. De Gryse. They are now located in 
Canada, where Mr. De Gryse is connected with the Entomological Branch, 
Canadian Department of Agriculture. 
F. Anderson, Director of the West Indian Sugar Factory, St. Croix, - 
Virgin Islands, recently donated to the Museum a collection of St. Croix and 
other insects, mainly Coleoptera. The collection includes about 2, 000 
canal ata have been accessioned and distributed to the various specialists, 
Dre He He Ewing has. had in ‘captivity for several: months an interesting 
pet, a California tarantula. It is very gentle, several people in the Museum 
having handled him without injury. It feeds almost entirely on grasshoppers, 
and will eat as many as two or three full-grown grasshoppers at a time. It 
macerates and swallows the whole insect until nothing remains of the victim—~ 
not even a claw, mandible or wing. It has molted once in captivity. 
LIBRARY 
- Mabel Colcord, Librarian: 
NEW BOOKS 
American Honey Producer's Leaue. yep an ecaees 
A treatise on the law pertaining to the carne « « » « Madison, Wisc., 
The American Honey Producers’ League in cooperation with the American 
Bee Journal and Gleanings in Bee Culture. 1924. 83 p. 
Ash, Ee Ce ) 
_ Ants, bees and wasps-— their iLitens comedies ane tragedies. ... London, 
; Robert Holden & Co., Ltd., 1924. 1364p., illus. - WaaLaS titles Nature 
Lovers Library v. 23. 5 
