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Number 199 


INSECIS AFFECTING MAN AXD ANIMALS 
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge 
Dr. W. V. King arrived in Yokohama, Japan, on November 1, en 
route to Manila, Philippine Islands. Doctor King is on a year's leave 
of absence from the Bureau of Entomology to make intensive studies of 
the Anopheles mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands, under the auspices 
| of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. 
| This work was begun by Doctor King during a six months' leave of absence 
in 1928-29, and he expects on the present assignment to clear up, at 
least in large part, the specific identity and biological relationships 
of the more important Anopheles of the Philippine Islands. 
Since his return on October 1 from a trip of three and one-half 
months through the southern Bahama Islands, many islands surrounding 
Cuba, and the Isle of Pines, Harold S. Peters has been engaged largely 
in compiling his notes and caring for the material collected on the 
trip. Mr. Peters accompanied the West Indian Expedition headed by Dr. 
Paul Bartsch, of the National Museum. He devoted special attention to 
the collection of ectoparasites of birds and to a study of the situation 
as to the sand fly on the islands visited. A large collection of Mallo- 
phaga was made, and accurate host and distribution records were obtained. 
D. G. Hall was transferred November 4 from the investigations 
of thé eye gnat in Coachella, Calif., to Charleston, S. C., where he 
will assist Dr. W. E. Dove in work on the sand fly. 
J. L. Webb left Washington on November 15 for Ames and other 
places in Iowa, for a few weeks' cooperative work with the Iowa Exper— 
iment Station and Extension Service on the problem of the horse bots. 
Prof. W. C. O'Kane visited this division on November 20 for a con-— 
ference on insecticide investigations, with reference to certain ecto- 
parasites of livestock. 
On November 26 Dr. C. J. Drake and Roy Melvin conferred with this 
division on various phases of the investigation of insects affecting 
livestock and poultry, in which the Iowa Experiment Station is especi- 
ally interested. 
Harold S. Peters spent the last week of November in Central Penn- 
sylvania with officers of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, investi- 
gating insect parasites of white-tail deer. 
