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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMO of PEF Sean as 
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Number 183 July, 1929 
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A VISITO ROM SIAM 
Dr. Luang Siribaed Bisuddhi, of Siam, visited the Bureau July 
11. Dr. Bisuddhi is perfecting his. English under the direction of the 
Siamese Legation, and expects to enter Johns Hopkins University School 
of Hygiene and Public Health in September, where he will be a candidate 
for the degree of Doctor of Science in entomology. 
Before coming to the United States Dr. Bisuddhi was Director 
of the Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Health of Siam. 
He will make observations in the field of entomology while in this 
country. 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
D. L. VanDine, local director of the Cuba Sugar Club Experi- 
ment Station, visited the field laboratory at New Orleans on July 13. 
Robert J. Webb has accepted an appointment as Junior Entomologist, 
for duty at Monroe, Mich., effective July 31. 
A shipment of nearly nine thousand puparia of Paratheresia sig- 
nifera Tns. collected by H. A. Jaynes at Cartavio, Peru, was received 
at the field laboratory at New Orleans on July ll. Mr. Jaynes expects 
to send from ten to fifteen thousand more puparia from the same place. 
‘He has been collecting this and other species of parasites of the sugar- 
cane moth borer in Argentina, but owing to the approach of cold weather 
in that country he moved temporarily to Peru. The parasites are sent 
‘to New York in the cold-storage rooms of steamships, are received by 
Harold C. Hallock, of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, and are immediately 
‘transferred to special refrigerator boxes and sent to New Orleans by Ex- 
press. Wm. H. Freeman, of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administra- 
tion, also cooperates in transmitting the boxes of parasites. 
0. E. Sanders, who is collecting insects for a biological sup- 
ply company, visited the field laboratory at New Orleans on July 8. 

