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Additional parasite shipments have been received at the 
laboratory during the late fall and winter, the last shipment from 
Japam arriving in early December. 
Dr, William Moore of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory has 
resigned his position to accept an appointment with the American 
Cyanamid Company of New York, Dr. Moore will be located at New 
York and will be engaged in the supervision of research work for 
the company. 
At the State Farm Products Show, held last month in Trenton, 
N. J,, an exhibit was arranged showing the Japanese beetle and 
varbous phases of the work that is being conducted against it. A 
similar exhibit was prepared for the recent meeting of the National 
Canner's Association, held at Atlantic City, N. J. At Atlantic 
City the Japanese beetle exhibit was part of the Department of 
Agriculture exhibit, 

TRUCK~CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
¥, H, Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
Three or four years ago the Mexican been beetle had been observed 
at elevations as high as 7,000 feet adove sea leve} in New Mexico and not 
higher than 5,000 feet in Colorado. Quite recently authentic reports have 
been received of the occurrence of this pest at altitudes above 7,000 feet 
in New Mexico and one of its occurrence at Chaffee, Buena Vista Coumty, 
Colo., at an elevation of 8,231 feet. In Mexico it is imowa to occur in 
Puebla, State of Puebla, at an elevation of 7,110 feet. 
In writing of the distribution of this species in Colorado, Dr. C. 
P, Gillette, State entomologist, mentions the occurrence of this species 
at Salida last summer and of its spreading in Delta County on the Western 
Slope in the irrigated sections. 
BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
E, F, Phillips, Apiculturist in Charge 
The act of Congress approved August 31, 1922, provides that the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury may admit adult 
honeybees from countries in which it is determimed that no diseases danger 
ous to adult honeybees exist, such importations otherwise being prohibited. 
On March 12 there was held a conference on this subject to which all in~ 
terested persons were invited, for the purpose of discussing the distribu- 
tion of the adult bes diseases in other countries and to make recommenda~ 
tions regarding the rules and regulations for which provision is made in the 
law. This law was passed primarily to prevent the introduction into the 
United States of a serious disease of adult. honeybees, known as the Isle of 

