
Dr. H. L. Parker, of the Bureau Laboratory at Hyeres, France, has 
recently sent to the Museum a very interesting lot of coleopterous larvae. 
This material represents European species and belongs to a number of different 
femities. It is very gratifying to receive such valuable. additions to the 
Ts a and this one will greatly expedite work on identification, 
5S. A, Rohwer er ate week of August 9 in Philadelphia and New York, 
Studying types in the collections of the Philadelphia Ween of Science and 
the American Museum of Natural History. 
Soe. A.C. Boving is ‘making a. . special ‘study. of the larvae of flea 
beetles, and a number of requests for material of the immature stages of this 
group have been sent out to various entomologists. Dr. William Colcord Woods, 
of Kent, Conn., has recently responded to this request by sending living speci- 
mens of Disonycha guinquevittata. Say and Altica corni Woods,. These specimens 
are very acceptable a additions to the. collection, it is honee: that readers 
of this note will make an effort to collect and send in immature stages of 
flea beetles, 

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Howard Baker, formerly employed at the Sligo, Md., laboratory, and 
associated with E. H. Siegler in fruit-insect work, and who resigned from 
the service some time ago, has been reinstated and assigned to duty at 
Wichita, Kans., where he is associated with Dr. Paul M. Gilmer, in charge of 
codling moth investigations at that place... 
G. F, Moznette, in charge of pecan insect investigations, with head- 
quarters at Thomasville, Ga., made a trip to Brownwood and other points in 
Texas to study pecan insect conditions in that. region. 
HL S. Adair, in charge of the Bureau's pecan insect laboratory at 
Brownwood, Tex., visited pecan growers in and around San Antonio and Austin 
-fugust 18 to 20, to make observations on insect conditions in pecan groves 
in that section, While on this trip he visited the Bureau's laboratory at 
San Antonio, engaged in the investigation of cereal and forage insects, and 
called on the State Entomologist at Austin, 
In August Oliver LI, Snapp visited fee ier Cds for conference, 
“Peach pest investigations during the year,," was the subject of an 
address by Oliver I. Snapp at the fiftieth annual meeting of the Georgia 
State Horticultural gra ay in Cornelia, Gaia's on August. 26. 
