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W. V. King, in charge of the field laboratory at Mound, La., 
went from there to Washington about the middle of November to confer 
with the Chief of the Bureau. 
Visitors during the month of November at the Washington office 
included Professor C. E. Sanborn, Entomologist of the Oklahoma Experi- 
ment Station, Dr. Edward Francis, of the U. S. Public Health Service, 
and Messrs. Mondell and Mortenson, agents of the Australian Prickly 
Pear Board. The two last named were on their way to South America, 
Mr. Mortenson to Brazil and Mr. Mondell to Peru, for the purpose of 
scouting for promising cactus insects. Incidentally, their intention 
had been to book passage on the ill-fated S. S. Vestris, but they were 
unable to get ready for departure by the time the vesse! sailed. 
D. C. Parman, of the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex., who has 
spent several weeks in California studying control measures for the 
sand fly Hippelates flavipes, returned to Uvalde November 24. 
STORED-—PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
E. A. Back, in Charge 
The second consignment of eggs of the Angoumois grain moth, Si- 
totroga cerealella, to the Barbados Department of Agriculture, for use 
in rearing Trichogramma parasites of the sugar—cane moth borer, Diatraea 
saccharalis, was shipped from New York November 24 on the S. S. Voltaire. 
The eggs were obtained at the field laboratory at Sligo, Md., by C. W. 
Ellington, who took them to New York and placed them on board the steamer. 
They were to have been shipped on the S. S. Vestris, which was sunk 
November 12; fortunately, the difficulty of obtaining these eggs so late 
in the season caused a delay which resulted in preventing their loss. 
A copy of "Essentials of Upholstery," by H. L. Bast, was re-— 
ceived in October, with the compliments of the author. The last chap— 
ter of the book, dealing with insects affecting furniture, is of in- 
terest because of the illustrations furnished by this Bureau. Credit 
to the Department of Agriculture is given in the introductory chapter. 
At the 1928 Institute of California Fig Growers, held at Madera 
on October 25, Perez Simmons, in charge of the field laboratory at Fresno, 
was named to assist the 1929 Fig Institute Committee in preparing a pro- 
gram for the coming year. 
On November 13 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company 
obtained from Dr. Back a deposition regarding facts relating to the 
biology of certain grain pests. 
