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The Third Annual Shade Tree Conference was held at Philadelphia, 
August 2 and 3. A trip to the Japanese Beetle Laboratory was one of the 
features of the program, and many well known tree surgeons and entomologists 
availed themselves of this opportunity to inspect the work being done at , 
the Riverton station, Among the entomologists present were A. F, Burgess, 
in charge of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass.; Dr. W. B, 
Britton, State Entomologist of Connecticut; Dr. T. J. Headlee, State Ento- 
mologist of New Jersey; C. H. Hadley, Director of the Pennsylvania Bureau 
of Plant Industry; and Dr. E, P. Felt, Albany, N. Y. 
Professor J. A. Manter, of the Connecticut Agricultural College, re- 
cently spent several days at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory inspecting the 
different phases of the work in progress. Prof. Manter has been visiting 
several of the large stations in the east and was specially interested in 
the parasite work of the Division, as he will conduct a course in insect 
parasitology at Connecticut Agricultural College during the coming scholas- 
tic year. 
Recent visitors at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory include Alma 
Keeler, Columbus, Ohio; Edgar A. Miller, Longwood, Fla.; J. van Houts, 
Madan, Sumatra; and Dr. J. Borcea, Professor at the University of Jassy, Jasey, 
Roumania, 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
AOELViLLios, (Chr. 
Revision of the Philippine species of the Gleneini (Coleoptera, 
Longicornia). Philippine Jour. Sci., v. 30, No. ly p. 89-115, 
May, 1926, 
Ballou, C. H, 
Los coccidos de Cuba y sus plantas Hospederas. Cuba Estacion Experi- 
tie eae eae Santiaga de las Vegas, Boletin 51, 47 p., April, 
206 
Bodenheimer, F. S, 
First report on tobacco insects in Palestine. Zionist Executive Agri- 
cultural EXp. Station and colonisation department, Div. Ext. Circ, 
ll, 42 p., illus, Tel-Aviv, Palestine, May, 1926. 
Cross, H. B, ; 
Bot flies of the Punjab. (Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bul, 
ta 16 p., 8 pl. Gov't of India Central Pub. Branch, Calcutta, 
Docters Van Leeuwen-Rei jnvaan, Mrs. J., and Docters Van Leeuwen-Rei jnvaan, 
W. M. The zoocecidia of the Netherlands East Indies. 601 p.,. 220gigum 
1 jo Drukkerij de Unie, Batavia 1926 Bibli s F 
566-582) , . (Bibliographic index," p, 
