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J, N, Tenhet, whose permanent station is Quincy, Fla,, spent the 
month at the main tobacco insect laboratory at Clarksville, Tenn. 
In a report just received at the Washington office from the Clarks- 
ville laboratory the statement is made that since the establishment of 
the laboratory the acreage of tobacco per man in that region has been 
raised from 3 to 5 or 6, and in some cases as high as 7 to the man. This 
is due in most part to improved methods of hornworm control, for which 
the laboratory is largely responsible. The quality of the tobacco raised 
by these improved methods is also improved and the saving to the growers 
runs into millions of dollars. 
T, E, Holloway attended the annual meeting of the inspectors of 
the Mississippi Plant Board at Starkville, Miss., during December, and, 
at the request of Professor Harned, gave brief talks on the sugar-cane 
moth borer and its control in Mississippi and on miscellaneous sugar-cane 
insects, 
T, ¢. Barber has returned from a trip into Mexico, He reports 
finding several new parasites of the sugar-cane moth borer, one of which 
seems to be very efficient. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
G,. A. Dean, Entomologist in Charge 
The following note, written by George W. Walcott, Entomologist of 
the Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, P. R., has been received 
from F, Muir of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station: 
"I have been doing some work on the food of lizards, and the most 
interesting thing found is that one of the important elements of food of 
the common grass-inhabiting lizard, Anolis pulchellus, is the chinch bug. 
The chinch bug is not a pest of corn or cane in Porto Rico, although I have 
rarely.seen it on injured shoots of the latter, and in one dry section of 
the island it is sometimes abundant on guinea grass close to the ocean. 
In Santo Domingo, in a moderately dry section, I have observed it as quite 
@ serious pest of corn and rice, But the fact that these lizards ate so 
many chinch bugs, where one ordinarily sees none, would appear to indicate 
that they form an important, if not the most important factor in their 
netural control," 
A closely related species of Anolis inhabits the southeastern part 
of the United States, and it would be of interest to learn whether this 
species is known to feed on the chinch bug. 
Ngee Myers, in charge of the Carlisle, Pa., laboratory of Cereal 
and Forage Insect Investigations visited Washington December 6, for con- 
sultation, 
