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Prof. Z. P. Metcalf, of the Zoology Department of North Carolina 
State College of Agriculture, at Raleigh, recently spent a week in the 
Museum studying the collection of Hemiptera, with particular reference 
to recording specimens from the State of North Carolina. 

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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H, Larrimer, in Charge 
Dr. Filippo Silvestri, of Portici, Italy, on his way home from 
the International Entomological .Congress at Ithaca and further travel 
in the United States, visited the European Corn Borer Parasite labora- 
tory at Hyéres, Var, France, on November 16. 
In the first week of November R. A. Blanchard, in charge of the 
field laboratory at Sacramento, Calif., made a trip into the Antelope 
Valley, on business relating to the alfalfa aphis. 
Dr. Harry L. Parker, in charge of the European Corn Borer Par- 
asite Laboratory, located at Hyéres, Var, France, is spending a brief 
time in America in consultation with the various officials with whom 
he is in constant correspondence relating to the collection. rearing, 
and distribution of parasites of the European corn borer. 
H. S. Peters, of the Division of Insects Affecting Man and Ani- 
mals, visited the field laboratory at New Orleans on November 14, and, 
with T. E. Holloway, in charge of that laboratory, made a number of in- 
spections of dairy cattle for the ox warble. 
Dean J. H. Skinner, of Purdue University, LaFayette, Ind., made 
a brief visit to the Washington office on November 22. 
S. J. Snow, of the alfalfa weevil field laboratory at Salt Lake 
City, was employed during the greater part of November investigating 
conditions in alfalfa meal mills at Ogden, Utah. 
On November 27 M. M. Darley, of the alfalfa weevil field labo- 
ratory, traveled by freight train from Ogden to Salt Lake City to ob- 
serve the reactions of adult weevils under the conditions obtaining in 
freight cars in motion. 
In the latter part of November Claude Wakeland, Entomologist 
of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, visited the field labora- 
tory at Salt Lake City to confer with George I. Reeves, in charge of 
alfalfa weevil investigations. 
A. A. Mathewson has been transferred from the corn borer field 
laboratory at Toledo, Ohio, to the field laboratory at San Antonio, Tex. 
