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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
J. E. Graf, in Charge 
J. E. Graf left Washington March 12 for an inspection of the 
truck-crop field laboratories of the West and Northwest, and in the 
course of his journey visited laboratories at Columbus, Ohio, Twin Falls, 
Tdaho, Walla Walla, Toppenish, and Puyallup, Wash., Alhambra and San 
Jose, Calif., and Tempe, Ariz. 
B. J. Landis, of the field laboratory at San Jacinto; gees 
Mexico, went from there to Columbus, Ohio, February 21, for conference 
regarding the future work on parasites of the Mexican bean beetle. 
Dr. N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, J. E. Dudley, jr-) )Madie=om 
Wis., J. R. Douglass, Estancia; N. M., and R. Cecil, Genevajeehaas 
the two last named being temporarily on duty at Columbus, Ohio, at- 
tended the meetings of the North Central States Entomologists at La- 
fayette, Ind., March 6 and 7. 
K. L. Cockerham, in charge of the field laboratory at Biloxi, 
Miss., spent March 13 to 15 at the Mississippi Agricultural and Me—- 
chanical College, where he studied the college collection of Elater- 
idae and reviewed the literature on this group in the college library. 
J. E. Dudley, jr., attended the fourth canners' SchOOD eae 
at the University of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin State Canners' Asso- 
ciation, March 19 to 21, where he discussed the present status of the 
pea aphid. 
K. L. Cockerham and 0. T. Deen, Biloxi, Miss., spent the interval 
from March 18 to March 25 in northwestern Florida, scouting for the wire—- 
worm Heteroderes laurentii, in the course of which they visited Escam-— 
bia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Jackson, and Bay Counties. 
Dr. Walter Carter, who has been in charge of the investigation 
of the sugar-—beet leafhopper, with headquarters at Twin Falls, Idaho, 
Since its inauguration in 1925, resigned March 21, to accept a position 
as entomologist with the Pineapole Growers' Experiment Station, Uni- 
versity of Hawaii, Honolulu. 
J. R. Douglass, in charge of the field laboratory at Estancia, 
N. M., visited Washington March 25 to $31, for conference and prepara= 
tion of a manuscript on the hibernation of the Mexican bean beetle in 
the Southwest. 
On March 29 K. L. Cockerham visited Henry Deitrich, Inspector 
for the State Plant Board, at Lucedale, Miss., where he examined the 
latter's collection of Elateridae. Mr. Deitrich has collected one speci- 
men of Heteroderes laurentii from George County, Miss., the first found 
in that county. 
T. E. Bronson, formerly Agent at the Madison, Wis., field lab- 
oratory, has received a probational appointment as Junior Entomologist. 

