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Paul B. Allen, jr., who served in 1930 as Field Assistant at the 
Wenatchee, Wash., sublaboratory, was reappointed to that position and 
resumed his duties on June 5, succeeding Harold A. Bonnet, whose term 
expired June 17. 
Upon a recent trip throughout eastern Washington and northern Idaho, 
where they made a survey of the woolly aphis and perennial canker situ- 
ation, M. A. Yothers of the Wenatchee, Wash., sublaboratory and E. L. 
Reeves, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, visited the laboratories of the 
Bureau of Entomology at Walla Walla, Wash., and at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 
The Belleville, Ontario, Canadian entomological laboratory has 
made several iced express shipments of the woolly aphid parasite Aphelinus 
mali Hald. to the Wenatchee, Wash., sublaboratory. This method of carry-— 
ing the parasites on the 5-day journey across the continent has been very 
successful. 
Dr. J. J. McManus, in charge of the Savannah, Ga., station of the 
Food and Drug Administration, and W. H. Simms, Inspector from that sta-— 
tion, visited the peach insect laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., on June 4, 
where a conference was held in regard to the presence of excessive arsen— 
ical and fluorine residues on peaches. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
Eric Pearson, a native of England, who has been studying entomolo— 
gy in the United States, visited the New Orleans, La., field laboratory 
on June 12. 
Dr. I. M. Hawley, Senior Entomologist, formerly located at the Salt 
Lake City, Utah, field laboratory, has been transferred to the Japanese 
beetle investigations with headquarters at Moorestown, N. J. 
W. R. Walton returned to Washington, D. C., on June 11 from a tour 
of inspection of field work and laboratories at New Orleans and Houma, 
La., Beaumont and San Antonio, Tex., and Tempe, Ariz. 
Prof. W. E. Hoffman, head of the department of biology, Lingnan 
University, Canton, China, visited the field laboratory at Arlington 
Farm, Va., on June 6. 
Dr. W. V. Balduf, of the department of entomology, University of 
Illinois, accepted a three—months appointment as Field Assistant and will 
assist in studies of the biology of Empoasca spp. in the insectary at the 
Arlington Experiment Farm, Va. 
Dr. W. J. Phillips, in charge of the Charlottesville, Va., field 
laboratory, spent the period June 14 to 25 in making a survey of the joint— 
worm in Tennessee and North Carolina, and at various points in Virginia. 
