ming Hine 
Dre H. HE. Ewing returned on April 26 from a trip to the Southwest 
where he stopped at San antonio anc Dallas, Tex,, Tucson and Tempe, Ariz., 
and Tallulan, La. ‘The floods in the lower Mississippi Valley. prevented the 
collection of adults of chigger mites around Tallulah, but the work in 
arizona and Texas was much more successful, as a great number of specimens 
of scorpions were collected, and a considerable number were brought home 
alive for making observations on life histories and development, A fev 
records of serious or fatal stings by scorpions were obtained, and some of 
then were. carefully investigated. 
C. He Curran, of the Entomological Branch, Devartment of Agriculture, 
Ottawa, Canada, spent two weeks in April in Washington studying flies in the 
National Collection, and collecting in the vicinity of the District. He 
returned to Canada on april 29, While here, besides consulting with the 
Specialists in the National Museum, he conferred with other members of the 
Bureau, cspecially those in the Division of Stored-Product Insect Investi-= 
gations. 
He Ae Allard, of the Department of Agriculture, is spending some time 
with Mr. Caudell in the National Museum studying singing Orthoptera, 
Je'G,. Bridwell, who has been in the Orient for the last few years, 
has returned to America, and visited the Division of Insects on April 29 
and GO. wr, Bridwell brought with him many specimens which he has col- 
lected, and has arranged to have forwarded a considerable series of speci- 
mens from India, He is primarily interested in completing his studies on 
Bruchidae (luylabridae) and is making an effort to find means. for continue 
ing then. 
In the last treek of april the collection of insects which had been 
formed by the Division of Truck Crop Insect Investigations was transferred 
to the wusewa, where it will be incorporated with the regular collection, 
This collection forms an extremely valuable addition to the Museum, as it 
gives a good series. of’ many important economic pests, and associates in 
mature stages with adults. The specimens are connected with notes by 
Bureau numbers under the Chittenden serios. 
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TRUCK=CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
da BenGrat, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Je Re Douglass left Estancia, N. M., on April 18 to visit points in 
Colorado to study the possibility of. planning additional work on the Mexi- 
can bean bettle theres, From Greeley,.Colo., he proceeded to Twin Falls, 
Idaho, where he conferred with Walter Carter, in charge of the Bureau labor- 
atory, regarding some ecological investigations he.wiil conduct against the 
Mexican bean beetle in New Mexico. He left Twin Falls on April <4, 
Rodney Cecil has returned to his: temporary substation at Geneva, 
Ne. Ys, and will there conduct investigations on bean insects. 
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