John D. Gunder, of California, spent two days of this month at the 
sia taking ee eee of western Lepidaptera. 
Ernest Bell, of Flushing, ‘XN. Y., who has an extensive collection eee 
North American Hesperiidae and is making a special study of this group, spent 
October 15 and 16 examining the Hesperiidae in the National Collection. _ 
Frank Johnson, of New York, an amateur interested primarily in nee 
moths of the family Saturniidae, spent October 21 comparing specimens with 
types and other material in the National Collection. 
In connection with a trip to New York on annual leave, Dr. Wm. Schaus 
took occasion to examine the types of Lepidoptera described by Henry Edwards 
which are housed in the American Museum of Natural History. 
While on his vacation in Harrisburg, Pa., early in October, W. S. 
Fisher used this opportunity to study types of Buprestidae in the collection 
of Mr. J. Knull, and also obtained information concerning the distribution 
of species of the genus Agrilus. 
Inge oR: Schramm, editor of Biological Abstracts, recently visited 
the Division of Insects and spent a day conferring with various specialists 
of the Division. 
pes bidding good-bye to the workers of the Taxonomic Teer Dr. S. 
Soudek, who left Washington for Czecho-Clovakia on October 30, expressed him 
self as being delighted with his visit to Washington and the hospitable re- 
ception accorded to him by entomologists throughout the SOUERe. United States. 
DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
eo a Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
C. H. Alden, eererene Entomologist at the Peach. Insect Laboratory, 
Fort Valley, aaa for more than five years, has resigned to enter commercial 
work. 
QO. I. Snapp, in Bees of the Bureau's laboratory at Fort Valley, 
Ga., writes that - “owing to losses from an over-production of peaches in the 
season of 1926, Georgia peach growers. are materially reducing expenses, and 
are using less paradichlorobenzene than usual. The tonnage used in the State 
this year will amount to only about: one-fourth. of that used in 1925. 
oe Newcomer, in charge of--the Yakima, Wash., station, states that 
the codling moth prasite Ascogaster. carpocapsae, introduced at Yakima in 
1920, continues to thrive and increase. Collections of codling moth larvae 
from banded trees near Yakima in 1926 yielded 3,800 larvae, of which 855, or 
about 22.5. per cent, were parasitized. ‘This perenetage is higher than ee 
been found before. More than 500 parasitized larvae have been sent to E, P. 
Venables, Dominion Entomologist at Vernon, B. C., to establish the parasite 
in the apple-growing regions of British Columbia. 
