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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
“W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge if 




















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Drs Stn Minkiewicz,. of the Governient Institute for Aerie 
tural Redearch, Pulaxy, Poland, recently syent a week with Geo. J 
Reeves, in ‘charge of the. Salt Lake City laboratory, and also spent 
some time a Wy tise: Cartrrd ent at the heck charac Salif., laboratc 
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S00 es Ne Transea x, of thé Ohio ‘State thiversity, mete ab 
Visit early in September to thet Tashi ngton office, while en rout 
Burope to his ‘home, “He has recently made a’ survey of various part 
hurove, studying plant associations in connection ‘with the degrees 

festation of corn by Pyreust 2 nubilalis. 
A summer shipment £ 80,200 Pyrausta’ nubilalis ‘chrysalids, 
sitized by eres ‘olen frons, and 7,500 cocoons of Dioctes pv 
was made™ on August} 9 from Genoa, Italy, by the °? Zuropéan Parasite. L 
tory at Hyeres, Tagen igi Tasse parasites: were: See Se by Dr 
Le Parker at Berea Lombardy. 
Total shinments.-of Pyr rausta pameites f From eu to: this 
for the last fiscal year were Zulimneris crassifemur, 47,340; Dio 
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punctoria, 11,209: Masicera Senilis, 1,552; licrasaster + tibislis, J 
and Phaeogenes aisni reas, 17,017, At the Arlington, Mass. , Labor 
there were reared 42,704 7 Zenillia roseanae; 11,447 Mecrocentrus ab 
87 Dioctes inetoria: Go. 175° Apantéles sp.; and 6,684 Masicera sen 
Thesé two lists male the tot dos parasites sent for use in the warf 
against the corn borer 338,0 To collect: the immorted parasites - 
laborers were employed for two sede in She sae, collecting per 
tending from July 25° to Ausust 10, 1925, in ‘northerneTtaly. ise 1 
the months’ of November and Decenier, 1928, “ead January and F 
“Dry We. R. Thonipson, in charge of the Genaeiale pardekie Labo 
and Prof. R. N. Chepman, of the University of Minnesota, who, 
Guggenheim fellowshin,-has passed the winter there working on biota 
tential, read »epers at the. Tnvernational Scape aees Pam bae yt held at 
Budapest Seviember 4 to. 9, | 

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; Ye. Gamkrelidze, a graduate of the University of Paris, -ha 
deen appointel Specialist in Hymenopt era. anc assigned: bo the’ ste 
Buropean Parasite Labor atory, . ” 
Recent visitors at the iyeres Laboratory have ineluded Dr. ] 
Howard, “ashington, Prof, FB. 4M. Transeau, Ohio State University, 
Metalnikov, Pasteur Institate, Paris 3, Dean Oy F.; Curtiss, of the 
College of Agriculture, and G, I. Caristie,: Director of the Ind 
ment Station ; 
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Vuw Tis aS ideumety. of. the. Teme, dete laboameenen secon 
a ten days' survey of southern. California: and southwestern Arizona 
connection with work on the alfalfa caterpillar, the isin 
fly, and the sovuthvestern corn borer, « : 
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