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Maurice E, Phillips, dried fruit insect investigations, has located 
his laboratory at 433 Weldon Avenue, Fresno, Calif., and during the past 
summer has been making a special investigation of the Indian-meal moth. 
Albert H. Amis, junior entcmologist, who has been associated with 
A, 0. Larson in the bean-weevil investigation at Alhambra, Calif., resigned 
September 25 to accept a position in Sinaloa, Mexico, urider the direction of 
fee, W. Morrill. 
The railroads of the country have prohibited the use of carbon disulphid 
as a fumigant of grain in their rolling stock except at certain points, par= 
ticularly at Baltimore and New Orleans. The Department has been called upon 
by them to investigate the possibility of finding a fumigant more suitable than 
carbon disulphid for grain fumigation and the Bureaus of Entcmology and 
Chemistry have been cooperating in this investigation which has now been 
under way for several months, 

LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
New Books 
Emery, C. La vita delle formiche. Torino, Fratelli Bocca, 1915, 254 p., 
illus. 
Evrard, Eugenie. Le mystere des ahbeilles, Tourconing, J. Duvivier, editeur, 
iGel., e9e p. 
Forel, August. Le Monde social des fourmis du globe compare a celui de 
l'homme. v. 2. Sensations, physiologie, fourmis et plantes hotes, para= 
sites, nids. Geneva, Librairie Kundig, editeur, 1921. 184 p., illus. 
Giiart, J. Precis de parasitologie. Ed. 2, rev. Paris, J.-B. Bailliere et 
fils, 1922. 575 p., illus. (Bibliotheque du doctorat en medicine 
publiee sous la direction de A. Gilbert & F, Fournier.) 
Jordan, E..0. A text-book of general bacteriology... 7th ed., rev. Philadel- 
phia and London, 1921. 744 p., illus. 
Kinsey, A. C. Studies of some new and described Cynipidae, p. 1-141; Varieties 
of a rose gall wasp, by A. C. Kinsey and Kenneth D. Ayres, p. 12-171. 
(Indiana Univ. Studies, v. 9, no. 53, Jume, 1922.) 
Lundbeck, William. Diptera Danica. Copenhagen, G.E.C, Gad; London, W. Wesley 
and Son, 1922. Pt. 6 (4U7 p.) illus. 
Macdougall, R. S. Insect and arachnid pests of 1921. (Trans. Highland and 
Agric. Society of Scotland, ser. 5, v. 34, p. 157-195, Edinburgh, 1922.) 
