DECIDUQUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintancc, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge. 
Dr. F. H. Lathrop, in charge of Blueberry Maggot Investigations, with 
headquarters in Cherryficld, Me., and his associate, C. B. Nickels, Woes | 
in Washington at the end of November, summarizing the results of expersnicniay 
worx during the Past season, 5 
Oliver I. Snapp addressed amass meeting of Georgia peach growers at 
Macon, Ga., on November 16. ‘his meeting was sponsored by the Georgia Peach 
Growers! Exchange, looking to a solution of the scrious problem brought about 
by an Overproduction of peaches in that state. 

TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, Entomologis+, in Charge 
Harold Ss. Peters, of the Virginia Truck Crop Experiment Station, 
spent Thanksgiving at the Division of Insects, working on the Mallophaga. 
Mr. Peters is located at a branch station at Onley, on the Virginia Penin- 
sula. . : 
Carl Heinrich left on Thanksgiving Day for Boston, where he will work 
in the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, classifying and naming the 
LepidoBtera which have been reared thero. Species which can not be identi- 
fied without the use of the collections will be brought to the Museun for more 
detailed study. Mr. Heinrich will also stop in New York City, $9 examins © 
types in the American Museun of Natural History. | 
: A subterrestrial chrysonelid larva, probably Typophorus viridicyaneus 
(Cr.), has-been received for the first time from a North American“locality. | 
It is reported as feeding on the roots of sweet potatoes. A short paper was 
read by Dr, Boving at the November meeting of the Entomological Society of Was 
. ington, dealing with the anatorny and taxonomy of the larvae of the subfanily 
Eumolpinae, to which this specimen belongs, and particularly the characters 
were mentioned by which this new destructive larva can be recognized. 
Dr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist of Canada, was a visitor to 
the Division of Insects on the 18th and 19th of November. 
_ or. C. P. Gillette, Director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment 
Station, visited the Division of Insects on November 19. 
: br. F. A. Fenton, of Connecticut, spent November 16 to 18 in the Tax 
Onomic Division, working on homopterous parasites of the family Dryinidae, ant 
while here completed a paper containing descriptions of a number of species 
new to the Muscun. - 
