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MONTHLY LETTE 
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PAR HE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
RIMERT) OF AGRICULTURE 

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' FURNISH MONTHLY NEWS PROMPTLY 
About the 20th of each month notices are sent to each division of the 
Bureau requesting news items for the coming issue of the Monthly Letter. In 
order that the news for the month may be as complete as possible, allowing 
time for reccipt of items from the more distant field stations in continental 
_ United States, the Editorial Office will hold copy until the 5th of the fol- 
- lowing month, but not later. All ficld stations should be instructed to send 
in their items promptly at the end of each month, so that they will reach 
Washington not later than the 4th or 5th day following. This arrangemont 
should make it possible to mimeograph and issue the Monthly Letter on or about 
the 10th of each month. Only by prompt preparation and dispatch of items can 
there be regular and timely publication, and.only if promptly and regularly 
issued will our "house organ" be a real news letter. =— Ed; 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F, ©. Craighead, Entomologist, in Charge 
Ed, Foster, collaborator of the Federal Horticultural Board, re- 
cently sent additional specimens of the introduced West Indian termite 
Cryptotermes brevis Walker to Dr. Snyder. This termite not only damaged a 
trunk in St. Anna's Asylum in New Orleans, Lae, but also furniture and wood= 
“work of the building. The trunk has been disposed of, and arrangements are 
being made to fumigate the building with hydrocyanic-acid gas,.weich is 
effective only against nonsubterranean "powder=post" termites, Elsewhere 
in the United States Cryptotermes brevis occurs only in southern Florida, 
and there always indoors in buildings. Tt has never been found out of coors 
in this country. Since this insect was introduccd into South Africa tho 
same has beon found true of it there. 

