mh Bes 
Temporary appointments have been given to E. C. Tatman, Sanford, 
Pla., G. R. McGinnis, Corvallis, Oreg., and C. H. Smith, Richfield, 
Utah. 
M. H, Atwood, temporary field assistant, stationed at Grand Bay, 
Ala., resigned May 1 to accept a position with the U. S. Public Health 
Service, Biloxi, Miss. 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Dr. Bernard Trouvelot, of the Institut des Recherches Agronomiques, 
Paris, was a visitor to the field laboratory at New Orleans, devoted to 
Sugar-cane insects, on May 23 and 24, He was taken to a near-by sugar 
plantation, where he saw growing sugar cane and examples of injuries 
caused by insects. 
J. W. Ingram, in charge of the sublaboratory at Crowley, for the 
study of rice insects, was in New Orleans for conference in May. 
At the invitation of Prof. R. W. Harned, T. E. Holloway attended 
a meeting of the Biology Club at A, & M. College, Mississippi, on May 9, 
and gave a talk on the subject "Sugar cane and sugar-cane insects," 
Word has been received from S. R. Vandenberg, associate entomolo- 
gist of the experiment station at the Island of Guam, that a very good 
emergence was obtained from the shipment of 1,700 spin-—ups of Exeristes 
roborator sent him last fall. 
On May 3 Geo. P. Engelhardt, for 25 years director of the Brooklyn 
Museum, visited the U. S. Entomological Laboratory at Webster Groves, Mo., 
to examine the few Aegeriidae in the collection there, preparatory to 
publishing a monograph of the family. He supplied several names of pros— 
pective collectors of living adult corn billbugs (Calendra spp.), for use 
in the present project of propagating egg parasites to be introduced into 
Hawaii for the control of the Hawaiian sugar-cane borer, Rhabdocnemis 
obscurus. 
Harold A. Jaynes, formerly of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, has 
accepted a transfer to the Division of Cereal and Forage Insects. He will 
conduct investigations of parasites of the sugar-cane moth borer in South 
America, principally in Argentina, with the object of importing into the 
United States such species as may be promising. It is hoped that this 
program will result in some control of the sugar-cane moth borer in this¢ 
country. 
