One business firm wrote this division in January that the technical 
information regarding the biology of grain pests given them in December by 
tis Bureau has saved them from paying a $500 claim for damages for which 
the Company had been. unjustly held responsible. 
EH. R. Sasscer informs this division that on January 25 R. I. Smith, 
Associate Fhant Quarantine Inspector, of the Federal Horticultural Board, at 
Boston, Mass:, intercepted a shipment of about 30,000 specimens (about 4 
quarts) of ohh meal worm, Tenebrio obscurus. These were shipped from Germany 
to a concern in Boston, and we were intended as food for birds. This shipment 
recalls the interest of bird fanciers in this country in methods for grow 
ing meal worms in large numbers. Dr. Cotton discusses such methods in his 
forthcoming bulletin on meal worms. One correspondent has stated that he 
could use a half billion meal worm larvae a year as fish bait. 

‘ete e?, at the request of the California Dried Fruit Associa- 
tion, Dr. Cotton made a study of the infestation of a cargo of figs recently 
brought to New York from San Francisco. The past year has been a bad one 
for fig-storage pests. 

J. C. Hamlin reports a visit by Dr. A. C. Baker in December to the 
Dried Fruit Laboratory at Fresno. 
LIBRARY | 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEV BOOKS 
Agricultural Insecticide and Fungicide Manufacturers" Association. 
Bulletin No. 1-2, 4-5, April, 1925-Dec., 1926. Published by the As- 
sociation, Ernest T. Trigg, President, 509 The Bourse; Philadelphia, 
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Femi ache Biktter flr angewandte Entomologie. Bd.-2, Heft 1, March, 1926. 
Freiburg, i. Br. 1926. ny , 
Braun, Max, and Seifert, Otto. a : 
Die tierischen Parasiten des Menschen... 6. avfl. bd. 2, 594 p., 
illus. Kurt Kabitgsch, Leipzig, 1926. cing hs . 
Catalogué of Indian insects, Part 11. Brenthidac, by Richard Kleine. 50 p. 
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Deut sche gentral-Afril ta-Dzpedition, 2d., 1910-1911, ; 
Ergebnisse... unter Fuhrung adolf. Friedrichs. - Bd: ‘. Digs 20% 
Klinkhardt & Bierman, Leipzig, 1925. Contents; Bd. 1, Zoologie, 
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