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In the latter part of June the collections of Orthoptera, Odonata, 
and neuropteroid insects were moved, and the rooms in which these collec- 
tions have been housed were rearranged. Mr. Caudell, instead of occupying 
room 386, now has his office in room 384, 
During the month of June Dr. H. E, Ewing continued his studies on 
the life history of chiggers, and applied different types of sulphur over 
a considerable area near Boy Scout Camp Roosevelt, on Chesapeake Bay, in 
an effort to determine how successful sulphur is in the control of chiggers, 
ani which type gives the best results. 
mot. Greene returned to Washington June 9, after a three mnthst 
Y tei in Panama for the Federal Horticultural Board. While there he devoted 
most of his time to the association of adults and larvae of fruit flies, 
particularly those belonging to the genus Anastrepha, In this work Mr. Greene 
was very successful, making many notes on the habits and development of fruit 
flies, as well as on authentic material of the larvae. Mr. Greene was also 
able to secure a number of interesting dipterous larvae and collect many 
specimens which are new to the National Collection. A short account of his 
trip appeared in The Official Record for June 23. 
Dr. J. Ms Aldrich, Associate Curator of the Division of Insects, 
National Museum, returned to Washington early in June, after a two months? 
collecting trip in Guatemala. Dr. Aldrich was able to collect a considerable 
number of interesting flies and rear a small number of fruit flies. In 
addition, he cooperated with the Guatemalan Department of Agriculture | 
in a conference on grasshoppers, and have expert advice on. the dipterous 
parasites of the forms of grasshoppers which are so abundant in Guatemala. 
and neighboring countries. A short account of his trip appeared in The 
Official Record for June 23. 

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. Le Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
Vas; field station, 
F. E. Brooks, in charge of the French Ofeeis T "23 bexar and ledina 
investigated insect conditions in Madison County, Tilden 
Counties, Tex., during the last half of June. 
Oliver I. Snapp, in charge of peach insect investigations at For’ Uely 
Jey, Ga,, made a trip to southern Georgia early in June to gee i 
status of the Oriental peach moth in that section. ce Ne! eau bears 
infestation vas found to be very light, oe Sh aaa os eae nie 
; | yor j betas -. . 
i tation in the Southeast was found in rag ich at 
eon visited the Bureau's pecan insect laboratory at Thomasville 
