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It will be remenbered that secord-brood larvae rendered unmerchantable all of 
the late varieties of peaches in Georgia in 1920." 
H. F. Willard, in charge of the Bureau's laboratory at Honolulu, Hawaii, © 
writes as follows: "Theo. L. Bissell, who has been employed at the Bureau's | 
station at Honolulu as Plant Quarantine Inspector since January, 1921, has been — 
granted a two-year furlough without pay to enable him to do postgraduate work 
in entomology at Cornell University. Alfred Iutken, a graduate of Mississippi 
Agricultural College, has been appointed to take Mr. Bissell's place and is now © 
associated with Mr. Willard." 
The Federal Horticultural Board has authorized the inspection and seal- } 
ing of hold baggage at Honolulu for passengers traveling from Hawaii to Pacific © 
Coast ports. This service is proving popular with the traveling public, trans- 
portation companies, and inspectors at ports of entry. It decreases to some 
extent the inconvenience to passengers during the rush of landing, shortens the 
time steamers are held in quarantine, and enables inspectors to inspect more j 
thoroughly stateroom and other unsealed baggage. 

Twenty-two employees of the Japanese beetle laboratory, Riverton, N. Jd., 
have taken out personal liability and property damage insurance covering any 
machine which they may drive, whether owned by the Bureau, the States of Pennsyl- 
vania and New Jersey, or a privately owned machine. The expense of this insur- ~ 
ance is borne by the employees and varies in amount from $18.00 per year to h 
$30.60 per year, depending on the size of the policy and kind of insurance car- — 
ried. One of the large insurance companies submitted 4 plans as follows: Plan 
1, personal liability only, in the amount of $5,000 and $10,000. Plan 2, per- 
sonal liability only, in the amount of $10,000 and $20,000. Plan 3, personal 
liability in the amount of $5,000 and $10,000, plus property damage to the 
amount of $1,000. Plan 4, personal liability in the amounts of $10,000 and 
$20,000, plus property damage to the amount of $1,000. The insurance in each 
case covers the driver and indirectly protects the Bureau's interest in that 
it will take care of settlements in case of accidents when the men are driving 
Bureau cars. A similar plan has been worked out which can be applied to tem— 
porary inspectors, employed during the summer months. Under this plan the em- 
ployees can obtain similar insurance at rates varying from $1.75 to $2.25 per 
month, the policy being cancelled at such time as they may desire. 
A shipment composed of approximately 50,000 Japanese beetle larvae in- 
fested by a dexiid (Prosena siberata) was recently received from Japan. The 
total weight of this shipment was approximately 8,000 pounds, and was brought | 
from Seattle, Wash., to Riverton, N. J., in 4 days by parcel post. Owing to 
the rapid transportation of this shipment, approximately 75 per cent of the 
insects arrived alive. These will be released during the coming summer. in New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania. 
During the summer of 1923 several plots of ground which were infested 
by the Japanese beetle were inoculated with cultures of Iseria densa. .No re= ~ 
coveries were made during the autumn of any grubs affected, but in digging 
this spring grubs were found which were diseased, and this organism was iso- 
lated. This particular fungus has not previously been found on white grubs 
in the central part of New Jersey, and it is felt that the recoveries made this 
