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D. J. Caffrey transferred _to Division of Truck Crop and Garden 
Insects.--D. J. Caffrey, Senior #utowologist, has been transferred 
from the Division of Cereal and Forage Insects to fill the vacancy 
created by the trunsfer of Dr. P. N. Annand.. Mr. Caffrey graduated 
from Massachusetts State Colleve in 1909. He-:pursued graduate studies 
until 1910, when he accepted a position with’ the Connecticut Agri- ; 
cultural Experiment Station to take charge of gipsy and brown-tail — 
moth investigations in that States He entered the Bureau of Entomology 
in 1913 and was engaged in work on the range caterpillar, the wheat 
straw worm, the alfalfa seed chalcid, and, at Hagerstown, Md., on- 
wireworms. Since April 1918 ho has been in.charge of research work 
on the European corn borer at Toledo, Ohio. 
Euxnodes sp., on peppers causing no appreciable injury.--F. S&S. 
Chamberlin, of the Quincy, Fla.,: laboratory, reports as follows: 
"On January 15, investigations cf a weevil, Euxnodes sp., which had 
been reported as causing serious injury to peppers, were conducted 
in Dade County. A survey of the very limited pepper acreage now be- 
ing grow in this county has shown infestation in only one small 
garden patch. Injury is produced by the larva, which bores through 
the stem, causing the plant to breek off, or wilt. The fruit is not 
attacked. The injury has evidently been confused with a stem-rot 
disease of peppers. The weevil, which was first observed in this 
county in 19:7, has evidently been there longer, but has caused no 
appreciable injury to peppers except in the 1930 crop. It does not 
attack Irish potatoes, tomatoes, or other cultivated crops so far as 
the writer can determine. It hes not been found on wild peppers or 
any other wild host plant to date. A search for wild hosts is being 
continued," . 

Results of experiments with insecticides against Mexican. besn 
beetle and onion thrips.--Experiments conducted during 1933 by L. W. 
Brannon, at Norfolk, Ya., on the Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna 
corrupta Muls.) and onion thrips (Thrips tabaci Lind.) indicated the 
following: The addition of nicotine sulphate to magnesium arsenate 
increased yields. Calcium arsenate in combination with nicotine 
sulphate reduced yield 100 percent, but only 2.7 to 3.7 percent when 
lime was added. It therefore a»sears that lime is a good corrective 
for reducing injury from calcium arsenate... Yields were increased © 
when nicotine sulphate was added to cryolite, potassium hexafluo- 
aluminate-lime, and barium fluosilicate. Practically all dusts re- 
duced yields, aparently because of failure to control thrips. In- 
creases in yield are due apparently to thrius control, although no — 
differences were observed between thrios injury on check and treated 
plants. The application of contact insecticides alone increased 
yield. Foliage injury in the form of leaf discoloration occurred 
after the third treatment on all plots to which nicotine sulphate 
was apvlied, either alone or in combination, although the injury ap- 
peared not to affect the yields. 

