Alhambra, Calif.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Wichita, Kans.; Dallas, San 
Antonio, and Houston, Tex.; and New Orleans, Mound, and Tallulah, La. 
This itinerary may be changed by circumstances arising in the course of 
the journey. 
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SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Entomologist Acting in Charge 
D. L. Van Dine, who has been in charge of the laboratory at Mound, 
La., for the study of malaria mosquitoes, resigned on May 15 to accept a 
position on the entomological staff of the Pennsylvania State College. 
Dr. W. V. King has been placed in charge of the Mound laboratory. 
E.R. Barber has been transferred from the branch of Southern Field 
Crop Insect Investigations to the division of Tropical and Subtropical 
Fruit Insect Investigations, effective June l. 
John W. Couch, machinist on the force of the boll weevil labora- 
tory at Tallulah, La., has resigned, effective the first of June. 
R. H. Van Zwaluwenburg, formerly of the Bureau and now entomologist 
of the United Sugar Companies of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, has gone to 
Cuba to collect specimens of the tachinid parasite of the sugar-cane moth 
borer for introduction into Mexico. This parasite has already been intro- 
duced into Louisiana by the Bureau. Mr. Van Zwaluwenburg is cooperating 
with the sugar cane insect laboratory at New Orleans. 
Geo. N. Wolcott, entomologist of the Insular Experiment Station of 
Porto Rico and collaborator of Sugar Cane Insect Investigations of the 
Bureau, spent a few days during May in Washington. 
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TRUCK CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. H. Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
J. E. Graf, entomologist in charge, field control, Mexican bean 
beetle, Birmingham, Ala., is visiting Washington for conference on the 
Mexican bean beetle and the new potato weevil -vhich has been found in 
Mississippi. 
To date, the new potato weevil has been found in the Counties of 
Stone and Harrison in southern Mississippi by inspectors of the Mississippi 
State Plant Board. The name and biology of this insect have not as yet 
been positively determined. The infested area covers a strip of territory 
about 14 miles long and 5 miles wide. Practically no scouting has been 
