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On June 29 Allen S. Nicolay, of Upper Montclair, N. J., consulted 
with W. S. Fisher in regard to certain Coleoptera, especially those of the 
family Buprestidae. 

INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
About June 20 D. C. Parman returned to the field laboratory at Uvalde, 
Tex., from the Coachella Valley, Calif., where he has been carrying on 
investigations of the eye gnat (Hippelates). 
D. G. Hall, who recently received the degree of Master of Science 
at Kansas State Agricultural College, has been appointed Assistant Ento- 
mologist, effective June 10, and has been assigned to investigations of the 
eye gnat at Coachella, Calif. 
Dr. W. V. King returned to the field laboratory at Mound, La., June 
15, after a furlough of six months, during which he conducted studies of 
the Anopheles mosquitoes in the Philippines under the auspices of the In- 
ternational Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. 
One June li Ff. C. Bishopp and H. S. Peters started on a tripy ion 
reconnaissance of the cattle grub, extending from Washington through Penn—- 
Sylvania, southern New York, western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, 
Vermont, and New Hampshire. Some experiments with these insects were per— 
formed in western Vermont. Mr. Bishopp returned to Washington June 29. 
J. L. Webb joined Mr. Peters at Burlington, Vt., June 50, to continue the 
work under way there. 
On June 19 J. L. Webb visited Florence, S. C., on business relating 
to work on the boll weevil. 
The Florida State Board of Health has applied to the Bureau of En- 
tomology to have T. E. McNeel continue his studies on the biology and con-— 
trol of mosquitoes which he has been carrying on at Zellwood, Fla., since 
last March. Mr. McNeel will continue this work for at least several weeks 
longer. 
H. M. Brundrett, Professor of Horticulture and Entomology at John 
Tarleton College, Stephenville, Tex., has been given a temporary appointment 
to continue investigations of fly sprays and spraying apparatus, to which 
he has given some attention during the past two summers. Mr. Brundrett will 
make his headquarters at the field laboratory at Dallas, Tex. 
