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side insectaries. We have ottempted to heat the cellar with electricaty 
and with a kerosene stove and have reised the temperatures considerably, 
but as yet the feasibility of this has not been worked out. As a whole, 
the buildine anpears to be well adapted to the work for which it was 
intended and will probably greatly facilitate the work. 
DINTIFICATION ALD CLA \SSIFICATION OF INSECTS 
H. S. Barb nas recently identified as Bruchus rufipes Uerbst 
specimens sent in for determination by &. P. Rockwood, of the Division 
of Cereal and Forage Insects, and reported as having been obtained 
from cormon vetch seed brought into Portland, Oreg., on August 10, 1933. 
The species is not known at this time to occur in the United States, 
end its behavior elsewhere sugcests that it might cause trouble if in- 
trojuced, 
L, L. Buchanan has. just completed a critical study of an inter- 
esting species of Magdelis, collected from Colorado Dlue spruce and 
sent in recently by C. W. Collins, of the gipsy moth laboratory, 
felrose Highlands, Mass. 
F. I, Benjamin continues to receive unusual and apparently ab-— 
hormal forms in the Texas fruit fly material that is coming to him 
for identification. So much variety exists in the material submitted 
that the SEE eer He: of a fiela investigation of the biologies of 
the different segregates recognized is clearly indicated. 
P. W. Oman has identified as Erythroneura Zev ina) flaminigera 
Geoffroy specimens of a leafhopper collected on rhod ote reer at 
Olympia, Wash., on March 1, 1934, by M. J. Forsell and W. H. Wheeler 
of the Bureau of Plant Galer asttiate. his is a Buropean species and, 
so far as we know, has not been previously reported from this country, 
The host of the species does not seem to be known certainly, but 
Mr. Oman doubts that it is rhododendron, 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
he entomological records of the University of Tennessee, Knox— 
ville, Tenn., were destroyed recently when Morrill Ilall, in which they 
were located, was destroyea by fire. However, a great part of the 
information on distribution and abundance, particularly that which 
covered the eee 14 years, is in the files of the Insect Pest ourvey , 
ani is available to the workers of the State and of the Bureau. The 
State Batonote Gist of Tennessee has called upon the Survey for assis- 
tance. 
