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MONTHLY LETTER OBWTHE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
UNITED STATES | DER EEN EOF | GRICULTURE 
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Number 123 July, 1924 
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WHAT KIND OF ITEMS SHOULD BE PUBLISHED 
IN THE MONTHLY LETTER? 
The question as to the kind of items that should be included in the 
Monthly letter of the Bureau of Entomology was discussed recently at a meeting 
of the Bureau Committee on Manuscripts, at the suggestion of the Acting Chief 
of Bureau, Dr. Quaintance. The opinion expressed or concurred in by all present 
was that the purpose of this publication is to make known to workers in the 
Bureau the professional activities of other workers in the Bureau, but that 
items relating to important insect occurrences, injuries, etc., should be pub- 
lished promptly and at first hand in the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin and not 
in the Monthly Letter. Recent numbers of the Insect Survey Bulletin have quoted 
items published in the Monthly Letter bearing on insect occurrences. In 
future such items, furnished by field workers and others, should be forwarded 
to the branch or division of the Bureau involved, and by the chief of such 
branch or division transmitted directly ts Mr. J. A. Hyslop, who has charge 
of the Insect Pest Survey, and not included in copy submitted to the Editorial 
Office for publication in the Monthly Letter. This should make it possible to 
publish these items more promptly in the periodical in which they would be 
looked for naturally and prevent a greater or less amount of duplication and 
waste. 
Items desired for the monthly Letter include records of appointments, 
assignment to special projects, resignations, transfers, notes on special 
technique, apparatus, and methods, special activities of Bureau workers such 
_as the preparation of exhibits, giving of talks and lectures, attendance at 
meetings, etc., and visits of domestic or foreign entomologists, their purpose 
and results. 
If kept within the scope originally intended, it is believed that the 
Monthly Letter will not become unduly long, which might tend to make it less 
generally read.~-Ed. 
FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
"On July 8, writes EB. J. Newcomer,"a specimen of Carpocapsa pomonella, 
var. simpsonii Busck was found in the rearing jars at the Yakima, Wash., lab- 
oratory. This is the only specimen of this variety ever reared at feagian: 
although over 16,000 codling moths have been reared since the laboratory was 
established in 1919." 
