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ported for duty at Tallulah, La., during June: Phil H. Berry, Kei 
Smith, Solomon F. Davis, Milton C. Ewing, William H. Lindley, Jo 
Roy, jr., Kenson R. Vance, Geo. M. Webb, Cliff C. Adams, John G. Du C 
Donald H. Alexander, Stanley 0. Coad, Edwin 0. Edgerton, Love pee 
nedy, Jack S. Rushing, and Dean He Allen. | - te 
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f L. F, Greer and B. A. Stevenson reported for duty at Port Lavaca 
Tex., on June 4, on plat-test work for control of the cotton flea 
per. 7 
Eric Pearson, of ene MARES: Epetend visited the Prasiaige 
of fumigation. He was Pek Pict yin interested in the fumigation 
periments at the technological laboratory of the Plant Quarantine 
Control Administration. 7 
On June 19 the headquarters of the Big Bend Plant Quarantine Div 
ision was moved from Marfa to Alpine, Tex. As Alpine is more centr. il 
located as a base of operations for the trap—plot experiments for contre 
of the pink bollworm, Hugh S. Cavitt and Homer B. Tittle, tompaes 
employees of the Bureau of Entomology, also moved their headquarters ‘ 
Alpine where they will be located at the Plant Quarantine ah 
TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge. 
Frank Johnson, of New York City, spent June 9 consulting vite Dr. 
William Schaus in the section of Lepidoptera. 
Richard P. Dow, a graduate student in Harvard University, Cambridge 
Mass., was in the Nati chal Museum June 9 to 12 and 15 to 17, examining 
collection of fossorial wasps (family Sphecidae) of North America and 
West Indies. He was interested in securing records of the preying hab: 
of these wasps. 
Dr. J. W. Folsom, of the Bureau's cotton—insect laboratory, Tallu- 
lah, La., called at the National Museum early in June to see the coll 
tion of Pol ieahols and to consult with several of the specialists there 
Dr. M. A. Stewart, of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex., spent a few 
days in June working on the National collection of North American fleas 
