FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATION. 
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F. C. Craighead, Entomologist,’ in Charge. 
Chemically ‘treated material is being asserbled for the model termites 
proof demonstration building to be erected on Barro Colorado Island, Canal 
zone, Panama, by the American \jood Preservers? Associatidn and the National 
Research Council, in consultation with the Bureau of Entomology. It is hoped 
that this building will be in place on the site by July 1, 1926. Wear by will 
be the "graveyard," as the plot used for service tests of woods treated with 
various wood preservatives has been jocularly named. . 
The manager of the Francisco Sugar Plantation, Francisco, Prov. “de 
Oriente, Cuba, states that damage to seed cane caused by ter eed” can be pre= 
_ vented by. dipping the cane in er ae OL1, 7 
Damage by Kalotermes in Florida to black locust insulator pegs has been 
reported by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; siftiilar damage occurs 
On the Pacific Coast. These insulator pegs high on the pole are usually the 
only untreated wood used, the pole and cross arms being impregnated with coal- 
tar creosote. 
Several cases of "yowder-—post!' beetle injury to furniture fax imported 
European anobiid beetles have recently been found in this countr ‘In one 
instance living lepidopterous larvae of. unknown species were a in the 
infested furniture, utilizing the burrows of the powder-—npost beetles. 

CERBAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGAT IONS 
i. H. Larrimer, Entomologist, in Charge 
L. «He Honthleys ), J. Caffrey, and:k. W. Babcock visited washington 
on February 13; on business. concerned with European corn. borer activities. 
Mr. Ceffrey and ir. Babcock remained several days, making arrangements for 
further ecological work on the insect in Burope. . 
Dr. W. J. Phillips and £4. M. Vance, of the Charlottesvillé, Va., 
laboratory, and Dr. Philip Iuginbill, of the Columbia, S. C., station,.were. 
Washington visitors in. February. . 
George G. Ainslie attended the meeting of the Association of Southern 
Agricultural ‘Workers, at Rigemnes Ga., ithe ,finstsmeeksot February. 
Dry W.-H. Larrimer wieited Atlantic. City on February 17, and 18; to 
confer with Arpthur Gibson; of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, who 
was attending a meeting there of the New Jersey Mosquito E Extermination 
Association. 
