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Contributions from the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory 
The Gipsy-Moth Laboratory will move to new quarters at 1156 Main 
Street, Melrose Highlands, Mass., on October 15. The new location is 
about one-half mile from the present quarters at 17 East Highland Avenue, 
and can be as easily reached by railroad or by electric car from Boston. 
The buildings on the new site are constructed of cement blocks, and con— 
Sist of two main structures and garage stalls. The largest building is 
being made ready for use as a laboratory, and some of the insectary 
buildings belonging to the laboratory have already (September 39) been 
moved to land adjacent to the new quarters. 
Visitors to the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory in September included Saul 
Phillips, Conservation Commission, Albany, N. Y., and Dr. E. A. Richmond, 
Brockton, Mass., September 5; J. T. Ashworth, Deputy in Charge of State 
Gipsy—Moth Work, Danielson, Conn., September 11; M. H. McIntyre and N. R. 
Trafton, Maine Department of Agriculture, September 12; Dr. F. Silvestri, 
Portici, Italy, September 15; and W. P. Duryee, Secretary, New Jersey 
Department of Agriculture, and R. P. Currie, Bureau of Entomology, Wash 
ington, D. C., September 16. 
C. W. Collins and C. F. W. Muesebeck attended a meeting at the 
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, Stamford, Conn., on September 8. 
C. E. Hood and J. V. Schaffner, jr., spent September 23 and 24 in 
the vicinity of Boothbay and Pemaquid, Me., making observations on the 
occurrence of the so-called spruce webworm, Epinotia nanana Tr. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck and J. V. Schaffner, jr., visited certain por-— 
tions of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts on September 
29 and 30, for information relating to studies on a leaf-—mining sawfly, 
Phyllotoma nemorata Fall., infesting birch. 
TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
R. E. Campbell, in charge of the field laboratory at Alhambra, 
Calif., reports that Dr. N. S. Scherbinovsky, Commissariat of Agri- 
culture of the U. S. S. R., Moscow, Russia, visited the field laboratory 
at Alhambra on September 2, 3, and 4. 
F. S. Chamberlin, of the field laboratory at Quincy, Fla., visited 
Washington in the early and the latter. parts of September, for confer-— 
ence with Bureau officials. 
Dr. Rodney Cecil, Alhambra, Calif., gave a talk on the Mexican bean 
beetle at the regular quarterly meeting of the Southern California En— 
tomological Club, held at the Los Angeles Museum on September 19. 
