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FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
Dr. Craighead spent June 9 to 13 at Asheville, N. C., in consul= 
tation with R. A. St. George regarding plans for work during the sum— 
mer at the field laboratory there. On June 23 he left Washington for 
a trip of inspection of the western field laboratories of this division. 
L. G. Baumhofer reported at Halsey, Nebr., on June 20, to resume 
his work on the tip moth affecting pine plantations there. 
Letters recently received by Dr. T. E. Snyder from city build— 
ing inspectors of Long Beach and Monrovia, two cities in California, 
bring news that those cities have recently included in the mandatory 
sections of their building codes the provisions recommended by the Bu— 
reau of Entomology for the prevention of damage by termites. 
Contributions from the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory 
Visitors to the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory in June included H. L. Bailey, 
Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Montpelier, Vt., H. B. Weiss, 
Chief, Bureau of Statistics and Inspection, and E. G. Rex, Japanese Beetle 
Control, Trenton, N. J., June 20, C. F. Doucette, Bureau of Entomology, 
Sumner, Wash., June 21, and Fred C. Brosius, Plant Quarantine and Control 
Administration, San Francisco, Calif. 
College students given temporary appointments as Field Assistants 
at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory in June are J. H. Lybass, H. D. Freeman, 
and R. K. Voorhees, of the University of Florida, T. 0. Fitzgeraicgaee 
the University of Tennessee, R. H. Fox, of the University of New Hampshire, 
and G. W. Oliver and C. W. Manty, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege. 
R. R. Whitten, who graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College in 1929, was appointed Junior Entomologist on June 23. 
Dr. J. R. Hobbs, of Harvard University Medical School, and Dr. 
W. H. Sawyer, jr., of Bates College, have been given temporary appoint— 
ments as Field Assistants for the summer, in connection with studies 
being conducted by the Gipsy~—Moth Laboratory. Dr. Hobbs is studying 
certain bacterial diseases, and Dr. Sawyer certain fungous diseases. 
In June shipments of Calosoma sycophanta beetles were sent from 
the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory to the State of Washington. Part of these 
have been liberated by J. C. Evenden in areas where the fir tussock moth, 
Hemerocampa pseudosugata McD., is present, and the remainder have been 
liberated under direction of C. F. Doucette in areas infested by the 
satin moth, Stilpnotia salicis L. Shipments of puparia of the tachinid 
fly Compsilura concinnata Meig. have also been sent to Mr. Doucette and 
to A. B. Baird, of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory, Belleville, Ontario. 

