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SOUTHFRY FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
#. C. Bishovp, Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
for the Farmers! Short Course at Col- 
EH. W. Laake gave two addresses 
nsects affecting nouliry and how to combat 
fese Station, Tex., July 29, on i 
them.. 
J. L. Webb is to spend a month in field investigations in Texas 
ing his adsence ¥. C. Bishopp is to act in charge of Southern Field Crop In- 
sect Investigations. 
W. EH. Dove, of the Dallas Laboratory, went to Jacksonville, Fla., 
July 21, to investigate the horse-flies in that State. Incidental to this 
investigation he is taking up a very interesting piece of work in collabora- 
tion with Dr. Kirby Smith, of Jacksonville, on a little-known form of dermal 
myiasis which is present throughout the South. This malady is especially 
serious in parts of Florida. 
F. C. Bishopp visited Cmaha, Nebr., July 2, to appear as an expert 
Witness in an insecticide casa. 
T. HE. Holloway, who spent a few days in Washington in July on official 
business, has returned to his station at New Orleans, La. 
MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
H. G. Barber, of Roselle, N. J., has been employed during the month of 
July as a specialist in Hemiptera, and during this period has arranged and 
determined the Nearctic collection of the family Coreidae. He has assembled 
all of the material belonging to this family from the Neotropical region and 
sorted it into genera. 
This month the Museum received through Dr. A. G. Boving from E. Rosen- 
berg, Copenhagen, Denmark, specimens of the larvae and other stages of seven 
species of Danish beetles for addition to the collection. 
During the month of July Dr. W. D. Funkhauser returned the last lot of 
Membracidae belonging to the Goding coilection. The Goding collection had 
been sent to Dr. Fonkhauser for study in three different lots. Dr. Funk- 
hauser has kindly examined each specimen, corrected the identification, and 
prepared a very complete report, so that it will ve possible to incorporate 
this collection with the rest of the Museum material of the family Membra- 
cidae. 
Dr. H. G. Dyer returned July 29 from a three months! trip to the 
Pacific coast, where he went in search of the larval stages of two mosquitoes, 
