saan le stern Shore of 
x. oe. 
Frof.: Geo. A. Dean left Washington Janvary 7% on an-extended trip to 
the West, and hes since inspected the green bug infestations in Kansas, 
Oklahoma, northern Texas, and Missouri. He consulted with the entomologists 
of the various State Experiment Stations and arranged plans for a thorough 
survey of the green bug situa vion. 
W. O. Hllis, who for more than five years has been attached to the 
corn borer investi soni pice staff at Arlington, Mass., resigned from the ser- 
-vice on January 12 ‘to nter private business. 
The laboratory quarters occupied by EH: EH. Russell, in immediate charge 
of the seed chalcis investigation in the Yuma Valley, were destroyed by fire 
on January <5, including ail the office equipment and records. ‘These quar- 
ters were located in a building occupied by the Department of the Interior 
which was entirely destroyed with a loss of about $150,000. It is planned 
to continue the work at Yuma and to fit up temporary laboratory quarters as 
quickly as possible. In the meantime Mr. Russell is located te smporarily at 
the entomological laboratory at Tempe, Ariz. 

MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATION 
(Items from the National Museum, contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
Dr. W. M. Mann spent. the last week of January in Boston studying 
types. and consulting with Dr. Wheeler on the classification of ants. 
Boving delivered his presidential address before 
Qn Januery 8 Dr. A. G. 
‘ft ciaaiaaee his supject being 'An Expedition to 
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the Entomoiogical Society : 
‘dr, Carroil Fox, of the United States. Public Health Service, has been 
— recently on the Maseum collection of fleas. Dr. Fox has completed 
By to tne genera of fleas for the world. 
working with 
e y purcnased 
tion now has the 
B. Preston Clark has been in Washington si 
the Lepidoptera in the Museum collection. Mr. Clar 
the Oberthuer collection of Sphingidae, and with this addi 
greatest collection of this femily in the world. 
me. Aldrich he received for study from the Vienna Museum the fit 
lot of types of American Diptera. With this lot the total number of spec 
has reached nearly 80. So far the shipment of types has been accomplishe 
without any mishaps whatever, the a going and coming without any dam- 
age. It is hoped that the study of tne Vienna material may be continued in 
eo seareusttl all the American types of Dipters have been examined, 
H. C. Huckett, who spent most of the month studying the collection of 
Anthomyiidae, returned to his home on Long Island on January <6. 
