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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY © © 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
| 0.8, Departmicat 9 
Number 187 November, 1929 
DR. HOWARD HONORED 
At its meeting of June 29 the Nederlandsche Entomologische 
Vereeniging elected as honorary members, in place of Chr. Aurivillius, 
of Sweden, and Th. Becker, of Germany, both deceased, Dr. Geza Horvath, 
of Budapest, and Dr. L. 0. Howard, of Washington, 
FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
"Section 9207, Termite Protection," has just been added to the 
mandatory section of the new building code of the City of Honolulu, 
Hawaii, recently made a law. 
Early in November an outbreak of the southern pine beetle was re- 
ported from Wilmar, Ark. Several groups of trees, having about 50 trees 
to a group, were said to have fading foliage. 
It is thought that the. low temperature of 4° F., experienced 
in the vicinity of Asheville, N. C., on November 29, may have caused a 
rather high mortality of overwintering broods of the southern pine beetle. 
Contributions from the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory 
R. C. Brown, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, returned to America 
on November 19 after an absence of two and a half years. During this 
time he has been studying and collecting parasites of the gipsy moth in 
central Europe. 
George Wishart, of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory, Belleville, 
Ontario, and L. B. Baker, of the staff of the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory, 
visited the Gipsy—Moth Laboratory on November 25. 
T. H. Jones, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, attended the meeting 
of the Eastern Branch of the American Association of Economic Entomolo-— 
gists held in New York City November 2] and ee. 

