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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS 
A. C. Baker, in Charge 
On March 15 Dr. A. C. Baker returned to Washington from Orlando, 
Fla., to confer with Dr. Marlatt and Mr. Strong in regard to the re- 
search work on the Mediterranean fruit fly, which he has been direct— 
ing. 
Dr. C. I. Bliss was transferred on March 5 to the new regional 
laboratory of this division located at Whittier, Calif., where he will 
have charge of the technical phases of the investigations carried on 
there, especially those having to do with the resistance to hydrocyanic— 
acid gas of scale insects affecting citrus. 
In response to requests for talks on control of thrips, E. A. 
McGregor, in charge of the field laboratory at Lindsay, Calif., has 
addressed gatherings in six localities in California-~at Elderwood, 
January 22, Orange Cove, February 14, Lindsay, February 18, Porter— 
ville, February 21, Ivanhoe, March 7, and Strathmore, March Zoos 90m 
March 14, at the request of the Southern California Entomological Club, 
Mr. McGregor read a paper at Los Angeles, discussing the somewhat in- 
novational finding that under conditions prevailing in California scale 
insects may be controlled by applications of finely divided sulphur. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
The mectings of the North Central States Entomologists at La- 
fayette, Ind., March 5 to 7, were attended by D. J. Caffrey, L. Hi Patel: 
A. F. Satterthwait, L. G. Jones, C. A. Crooks, L. L. Pierce, C. Niieeee 
lie, M. Schlosberg, C. M. Packard, W. B. Noble, H. R. Painter and G. G. 
Ainslie, all of the field personnel of this division. 
In March Emory D. Burgess was appointed Junior Entomologist, 
for duty at Arlington, Mass., and Antonio A. Celaya, Junior Laborer, for 
Guty at Tempe, Ariz. 
The Washington office was visited on March 12 by Dr. D. M. De— 
Long, of Ohio State University, Columbus, and by L. H. Worthley, of 
Boston, Mass., and H. N. Bartley, of Silver Creek, N. Y., both of the 
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
The field laboratory formerly located at 337 Franklin Street, 
Carlisle, Pa., has been moved to 624 West Louther Street, in the same 
city. 

