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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Entomologist, in Charge 
George I. Reeves visited the University of Nevada, at Reno, the 
first week of April, to arrange cooperative work on the alfalfa weevil. 
Curtis Benton, who has been employed in the control operations on 
the European corn borer, was transferred on April 1, to assist in the 
Hessian fly investigations at the West Lafayette, Ind., laboratory. 
Prof. and Mrs. Dwight Sanderson and Prof. and Mrs. Jno. H. Come 
stock were recent visitors at the corn borer parasite laboratory at 
Hyeres, France. 
Dr. W. H. Larrimer visited New York City April 15 for consulta- 
tion with L. H. Worthley on the control of the European corn borer. 
About the middle of April J. R. Horton made a survey of insect 
conditions in Western Oklahoma and northeastern New Mexico. 
Recent visitors at the Corn Borer Laboratory, at Arlington, Wass.; 
were Dr. H. W. Alberts, Dept. of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, and 
S. S. Crossman, C0. Walter Collins, and Russell Holbrook, of the Gipsy Moth 
Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, Mass. 
A total of four imported corn borer parasites have been recovered, 
namely Eulinneria crassifemur Thom, Microgaster tibialis Nees, Phaeogenes 
planifrons Wesm., and Exoristes roborator Fab. The last named species has 
been recovered in Ohio and western New York, as well as at several points 
in New England. | 
Noteworthy winter shipments of parasites from France to the Euro- 
pean corn Borer Laboratory at Arlington have been as follows; 34,816 
Microgaster tibialis Nees, 13,191 Bulimmeria crassifemur Thom, and 
355,400 host larvae from which four other species of parasites will be 
reared. . 
D J. Caffrey has started work in the Bono, Ohio, district, in cone 
nection with the outdoor corn borer experiments which he inaugurated in 
that section last year. He has also been traveling in southern Michigan, 
where cooperative experiments will be carried on with agronomists and 
entomologists of the Michigan State College, dealing with the corn borer 
investigational work. Mr. Caffrey also visited Mr. H. N. Barley, at the 
Silver Creek, N. Y., laboratory, and Mr. L. H. Patch, at the Sandusky, Ohid, , 
laboratory, to confer with them in regard to the corn borer work at these 
points. 
George W. Barber, formerly of the Corn Borer Laboratory at Ar- 
lington, Mass., has been transferred for duty at the Charlottesville, 
Va-, laboratory, to assist in jointworm experiments, under the direction 
Sl iry Weds FoLlli ne, 
