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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
The North-Central States Entomologists, in conference at Madison, 
Wis., in March, 1927,. accepted the invitation of Dr. L. Haseman and A. F. 
Satterthwait to meet in Missouri in March, 1928, chose St. Louis as the 
place of meeting, and appointed Mr. Satterthwait to serve as chairman of 
the committee on arrangements. The conference was held in Rebstock Hall. 
Washington University, March 1 to 3, and was favored by having in atten— 
dance more working entomologists than have been at any previous con-—- 
ference of entomologists of the North-Central States. The Bureaus of 
Entomology and Chemistry, and the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin were 
represented. At the noon recess on March 1, all who were in attendance 
at that time motored to the U. S. Entomological Laboratory, 527 Ivanhoe 
Place, Webster Groves, Mo., where the investigation of corn billbugs is 
the special project. 
. Recent visitors at the Monroe, Mich., field laboratory include 
meena Nrs. R. D. Glasgow, Albany, N. Y., and .G. L. Giasson, G. W. 
Wishart, C. S. Thompson, and L. J. Briand, from the Dominion Entomologi- 
cal Laboratory, Chatham, Ontario. 
J. R. Horton, in charge of the field laboratory at Wichita, Kans., 
spent a few days in the latter part of April in northeastern New Mexico, 
on business relating to studies of the southwestern corn borer and other 
pests. 
Dr. F. W. Poos, of the Virginia Truck Crop Experiment Station, 
at Norfork, has accepted an appointment in this branch effective April 
16, 1928. He will be located at Arlington Farm, Va., and will conduct 
investigations on the possible relation of alfalfa and clover "yellows" 
to leafhopper injury. Dr. Poos was formerly connected with this branch 
of the Bureau, and served at Charlottesville, Va., and Sandusky, Ohio. 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B. Smith, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Among the visitors at the Japanese beetle laboratory in March 
were Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, and several members of the 
Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration, including Dr. C. C. McDonnell 
and Dr. E. Wallace, of Washington, D. C., D. P. Perry, Haddon Heights, 
N. J., and F. D. Bailey, Corvallis, Oreg. On March 2 and 5 Mr. Alejandro 
de Mesa, of the Bureau of Forestry, Manila, P. I., spent two days study- 
ing the work of the laboratory. 
C. P. Clausen, in charge of the foreign parasite work for the 
Japanese beetle project, left in March for Japan. He expects to be absent 
from the United States four years. 
