aM eee 
The removal of the research divisions of the Japanese beetle pro— 
ject from Riverton to Moorestown, N. J., is about completed. 
During the winter months three shipments of parasites were re-— 
ceived at the Moorestown laboratory. All of these were Tiphia wasps in 
the cocoon stage, reared from ovipositions obtained on Popillia grubs 
at the different field laboratories. From Shillong, India, 9,000 cocoons 
of Tiphia No. 2056, a large percentage of which were affected by fungus, 
were received in November. From Miho, Japan, 5,900 cocoons of Tiphia No. 
1851, in very good condition, and 700 cocoons of Tiphia No. 5, from 
Suigen, Korea, which were largely attacked by fungus, arrived in December. 
From Pennin, China, 9,000 cocoons of Tiphia No. 115 arrived in January 
in very good condition. 

STORED—PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On January 25 A. QO. Larson and C. K. Fisher moved headquarters 
for the bean weevil investigations from Alhambra to 1218 I Street, Modec- 
hope califl. ; 
At the request of Director Eagle Stillwater, Dr. Back attended 
the Seventh Furniture Institute at Grand Rapids, January 16 to 21, and 
gave an illustrated talk on insect damage to furniture. 
By request, Dr. R. T. Cotton was present as an official observer 
at the fumigation of a large candy establishment in Chattanooga, Tenn., 
January 20 to 22. 
Perez Simmons and W. D. Reed attended the twentieth annual meeting 
of the Dried Fruit Association of California, held January 14 at Del 
Monte, Calif. Mr. Simmons read a paper by Simmons and Reed, entitl.d 
"Methods of Fumigation in the Dried Fruit Industry." The Association 
voted to have the paper mimeographed for distribution among its memberc. 
At the request of the secretary of the Association, Mr. Simmons exhibited 
photographs of fumigable storage bins constructed during the past yecr 
and displayed a sample of a trap which it is hoped will prove useful in 
the coming season by lessening the abundance of dried-fruit beetles in 
fig orchards. 
Harry Steiner, recently associated with D. B. Mackie, has severed 
his connection with the California State Department of Agriculture and 
about March 1 will go to Turkey, where he will be engaged in the fumiga-— 
tion of figs, in the interest of the National Biscuit Company. 
