INSECT PEST SURVEY AND EXTENSION ENTOMOLOGY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
Fred D. Butcher was one of the speakers in the recent short course 
for graduate veterinarians, held at the Missouri Agricultural College. 
He was there from January 21 to January 24, and led a discussion on botfly 
control. He then visited the extension departments of the Kansas State 
Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Iowa State College, and 
Purdue University, to make preliminary arrangements for extension work 
in the States in which these institutions are located. 
M. C. Lane, of the Division of Truck-Crop Insects, who is in 
charge of wireworm investigations in the Pacific Northwest, visited the 
Insect Pest Survey January 31 to discuss methods of estimating the abun- 
dance of wirewornms. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
E. K. Bynum has been appointed Assistant Entomologist, effective 
January 12. He is located at Houma, La., and will assist in the receiv-— 
ing, rearing, and liberation in the United States of parasites of the 
sugarcane moth borer which are being received from South America. 
Dr. W. H. Larrimer visited the Carlisle, Pa.,; field laboratory 
m January 20, for consultation with C. C. Hill and other members of the 
staff on activities there, including work on the Hessian fly. 
LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Alphandéry, Eduard. 
La fausse teigne. Description, dég&ts, nourriture, moyens de pré- 
servation et destruction ...4I12 p., illus. Montfavet (Vau- 
cluse), Librairie de Vulgarisation Apicole, 19350. 
Austen, E. E. cre 
On a new dipterous parasite (family Calliphoridae, subfamily Cal- 
liphorinae) of the Indian elephant, with notes on other dipterous 
parasites of elephants. Zool. Soc. London, Proc. pt. III, p. 677- 
688, October, 1930. {Elephantoloemus indicus, sp. n.] 

