pos Ok 
Cue cotlings tl. IT. Guild.“ and’ W.. L. Baker, of the gipsy—moth 
laboratory, spent April 7 at Amherst, Mass., consulting with C. E. Behre 
and V. E. Jensen, of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, regarding 
@ joint report now being prepared that deals with a series of Silvicultural 
plots in different kinds of typical forest stands in that part of New 
England infested by the gipsy moth. This project was begun as the result 
of a cooperative agreement entered into between the Bureau and the Forest 
Service in 1913. Its objects were to ascertain what proportion of trees 
of different species could be associated to form stands which would not 
be subject to gipsy-moth ravages, and to determine the best methods of 
converting existing stands into others better able to resist attack. 
L. D. Casey has been appointed Field Assistant at the gipsy—moth 
laboratory and began work April 13. Mr. Casey has been employed at the 
laboratory during summer seasons for the past few years. 
T. R. Gardner and M. H. Brunson, of the Japanese-beetle laboratory, 
visited the gipsy-moth laboratory on April 21. While stationed in Japan 
Mr. Gardner supervised the collection and Shipment to Melrose of large 
humbers of Chaetexorista javana B. & B., a tachinid parasite of the 
Oriental moth, and a fungus, Entomophthora sp., which attacks the gipsy 
moth in Japan. 
W. A. Baker of the European corn—-borer laboratory at Monroe, Mich., 
Spent three days at the gipsy—moth laboratory during the latter part of 
April. He consulted with C. F. W. Muesebeck and R. T. Webber regarding 
' cCertain taxonomic questions related to investigations of corn-—borer 

w= parasites. 
A. B. Baird, of the Dominion parasite laboratory, Belleville, 
Ontario, visited the gipsy-moth laboratory on April 25. 


INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
R. A. Roberts, Assistant Entomologist, of the Uvalde, Tex., field 
laboratory, spent practically the entire month of April in Mexico, in- 
_ vestigating and collecting parasites of blowflies for possible importation 
into the United States. His itinerary included San Luis Potosi, Tampico, 
and Victoria, Mexico. 
R. W. Wells, of the Galesburg, I1ll., field laboratory, was in 
Washington April 2 for a conference with Department specialists. 
George H. Bradley, of the Orlando, Fla., field laboratory, spent 
April 18 to 30 investigating the recent destructive outbreak of Simulium 
in Mississippi and Arkansas. 
