DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of bureau, in Charge 
O. I. Snapp, in charge of peach insect investigations at Fort 
Valley, Ga., gave the main address of this year's annual meeting of the 
south Carolina Peach Growers' Association, which was held at Columbia, 
Ss. C., on November 16. 
E. J. Newcomer, in charge of the apple insect laboratory at 
Yakima, Wash., writes, "The codling moth parasite Ascogaster carpocapsae 
Seems to be increasing in the vicinity of Yakima. During 1927 a block 
of 58 unsprayed trees about a mile northwest of the point of original 
introduction of this parasite were kept banded and examined weekly. From 
these bands 24,800 codling moth worms have been taken during the season, 
of which 7,700, or 31 per cent, were parasitized. Last year a parasitism 
of 22 per cent was found.’ Of these approximately 1,500 have been shipped 
to British Columbia for introduction there, and about 1,500 more have 
been distributed to various places in Washington. The rest are being 
held until spring, when they will be sent to various apple-growing dis— 
wricts in the Pacific Northwest." 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
William Middleton spent November 25, 26, and 27 in Philadelphia 
and vicinity, working with Floyd F. Smith, of the Pennsylvania Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, on the box leaf miner. 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Brumpt, Emile. 
Precio de parcel volugio.. . - Ed. 4. 1 452 (ps; illus... pl. iPariay 
Masson et cie, 1927. (Arthropodes, p. 824-972; Insectes, p. 973-1144. ) 
Cuenot, Lucien. 
Le transformisme, par MM. Lucien Cuenot, Roland Dalbiez, Elie 
Gagnebin, W. R. Thompson, Louis Vialleton. 218 p. (Le parasiti- 
isme et la doctrine transformiste, par W. R. Thompson, p. 123-151.) 
