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Another pilot and a mechanician accompanied Mr. Coad, they flying 
one of the DeHaviland airplanes of the field laboratory fleet, which will 
be used aS an auxiliary and supply plane for the Stinson plane. The 
Stinson plane is equipped with insect traps for capturing pink bollworm 
moths in flight. Lieutenant pilot aviator Jose Leon, of the Mexican 
Aviation Service, convoyed Mr. Coad and party in the flight from El Paso 
fomeranaulilo on August 22. Dr. F. A. Fenton and G. W. Berrier, of the 
Seenebollworm field laboratory at El Paso, Tex., and P. A. Glick, of the 
laboratory at Tallulah, who made the trip to Tlahaulilo by train, complete 
the staff of workers who will conduct the investigations of the pink 
bollworm in Mexico. 
Joseph E. Culpepper, Robert P. Patty, and Bertram A. Moers, tem— 
porary field assistants at the Tallulah field laboratory, resigned in 
August and returned to college. 
At the Fourth International Congress of Entomology, held at Ithaca, 
N. Y., August l2 to 18, there was a sub-section on cotton insects, of which 
Prof. J. M. Robinson was chairman, Prof. J. Gray vice chairman, and Dr. 
J. W. Folsom secretary. The attendance numbered 31, and much interest 
was manifested. Dr. C. L. Marlatt opened the session with an informal 
talk on the present status of the pink bollworm in the United States and 
Mexico. Five papers were presented by their authors, as follows: F. G. 
Holdaway, of Adelaide, South Australia, "The pink bollworm situation in 
Australia"; Dr. V. V. Nikolsky, Entomologist of the Chief Cotton Commit— 
tee, Moscow, Russia, "The most important cotton-pest insects in Turkestan 
and Caucasia"; Dr. W. E. Hinds, Entomologist, Louisiana State University, 
"The development of a control program for the Mexican cotton boll weevil 
Bnaesome of its results"; R. W. Harned, of the Mississippi A. and M. 
College, "Mississippi methods of enforcing quarantine against cotton 
pests"; and Dr. W. V. King, in charge of the field laboratory of the Bu- 
reau at Mound, La., "The cotton fleahopper." Abstracts were read of the 
following papers by the authors named: G. N. Wolcott, Entomologist, of 
the agricultural experiment station at Lima, Peru, "The pink bollworm in 
Haiti"; H. A. Ballou, Commissioner of Agriculture of the British West 
Indies, Trinidad, "The status of the cotton leaf worm (Alabama argiliacea 
Hbn.) in the West Indies"; H. H. King, Government Entomologist, Sudan, 
Egypt, "The pink bollworm (Platyedra gossypiella Saunders)"; B. R. Coad, 
in charge of Cotton Insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, "Cotton— 
insect control problems in the United States"; Dr. F. A. Fenton, in charge 
of the pink bollworm laboratory, El Paso, Tex., "Biological notes on the 
pink bollworm in Texas"; and R. E. McDonald, Entomologist, State of Texas, 
"Cotton-seed disinfection as a control for the pink bollworm." The Bu- 
reau of Entomology contributed an exhibit of cotton insects and their 
work and supplied a motion picture showing cotton dusting by airplane. 
