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H. L? Weatherby, field assistant, connected with the Birmingham lab- 
oratory, made a scouting trip through the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, 
and southwestern Pennsylvania, for the Mexican bean beetle. The beetle was 
found in Washington and Green Counties, Pennsylvania, as well as in several 
counties, previously reported as infested, in the other States mentioned. 
Appointments, etc. 
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E. Bronson's temporary appointment has been extended for an addi- 
tional three months in order that he may compiete important and promising 
experiments on the control of truck-crop insects. He has been conducting | 
this work in Wisconsin under the direction of J. EB. Dudley, entomologist in 
charge of the laboratory at Madison. 
W. B. Wheelis, Junior Entomologist, who has been connected with the 
Mexican bean beetle laboratory at Birmingham, Ala., has resigned his position 
there to take up vocational work in Arkansas. 
Wallace Colman has been Spee ee Junior Entomologist, to serve in con- 
nection With the Mexican bean beetle work, and will be stationed at Birming- 
ham, Ala., under the cirection of =~ F. Howard. Mr. Colman received his 
master's degree from Cornell University and has since taken additional special 
work at Iowa State College. oy 

Walter Baldin has been given e temporary appointment as field assistant. 
He. will aid Mr. Stahl, in charge of the Riverside, Calif., laboratory, in car- 
ing for experimental plantings of selected sugar beets, etc. 
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SOUTHERN FIZLD CROP INSECT THVESTICATIONS 
vd, L. Webb, Entomologist, Acting in Charge 
¥. C. Bishopy, who was in charge of the Washington office the greater 
part of the month, left in the last week by automobile for Jacksonvilie, Fla., 
en route to Dallas, Tex. On the way ne will make observations on insects 
injurious to domestic animals and to cotton. 
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es J. L. Webb returned to Washington August 19, after visiting several 
Tield stations in Texas and Louisiana, where he investigated the status of 
the “cotton hopper" (Psallus seriatus). { 
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