MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT CF AGRICULTURE

: OBRARY — —

Number 182 STATE PLANT BOARD

June, 1929

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge

The Bureau of Entomology is beginning this season an intensive study
of the parasites of the codling moth. At the outset the work will consist
chiefly of a survey of the principal apple regions of the United States,
to bring up to date and amplify our information regarding the identity,
distribution, and. relative abundance of the various parasites affecting the
codling moth. Some 20 entomologists in various parts of the country, in-
cluding many of the field men of this division, have agreed to cooperate
and send in, for rearing, material collected in their respective sections.
Luther Brown has been assigned to the project, which is centered at the
field laboratory at Silver Spring, Md.

On May 28 Dr. B. A. Porter attended a conference with entomologists
of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia, at Charles Town, W. Va. , to ob-
serve an outbreak of the pistol case bearer, and to discuss methods of con-
trol. While this insect is normally of very minor importance, a few or-
chards in the Shenandoah Valley have developed serious infestations. One
orchard in particular -has suffered a defoliation averaging fully 50 per
cent, in addition to considerable direct injury to the fruit.

A. W. Morrill, Jr., a graduate of the University of California, has
been appointed Field Assistant and assigned to duty at Yakima, Wash., where
he is assisting E. J. Newcomer in apple-insect investigations.

W. P. Yetter, Jr., a graduate of the Colorado Agricultural College,
was appointed Associate Entomologist May 9, and assigned to duty at Vincen-
nes, Ind. , where he will carry on investigations of the oriental peach moth.

R. S. Filmer, Junior Entomologist, who was associated with Dr. Camp-
bell in orchard-insecticide investigations, resigned from the Bureau, effec-
tive May 2, to accept a fellowship at Rutgers University.

The botanical expedition of 'West Virginia University, made up of 25
students under the direction of Dr. P. D. Strausbaugh, head of the botani-
cal department of that University, visited the field laboratory at French
Creek, W. Va., June 19.

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Fred E. Brooks, in charge of the field laboratory at French Creek,
W. Va., visited a number of chestnut growers in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, and Virginia, June 5 to 14, gathering data to use in a study of
the chestnut curculio.

Oliver I. Snapp gave an address on control of peach insects before
the Rotary Club in Americus, Ga., on May 29. The peach growers of Sumter
County, Ga., were guests of the club for that occasion.

H. S. Swingle, who has been engaged in investigations of peach insects
at the field laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., for the past four years, re-
signed on June 30 to accept a position with the Department of Entomology at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

Howard Evarts Weed, formerly engaged in entomological work, and
known as the inventor of the "Kero Water" spray pump, which was much used
in the early days of the San Jose scale, was a recent caller at the Bureau
of Entomology. He is now engaged in landscape work in Portland, Oreg.

Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory

Four large shipments of parasites of the Japanese beetle have been
received this month from T. R. Gardner, of the field laboratory at Yokohama,
Japan. Two of these shipments consisted of beetle larvae parasitized by
the dexiids Prosena siberita and Dexia ventralis . Few people appreciate
the work and expense entailed in preparing this material for shipment; for
example, in the case of Prosena, the female flies have first to be caught,
and are then dissected under a binocular microscope and the minute larvae
within the larval sac are placed, two or three in number, on the grubs of
the host Popillia. These minute larvae almost immediately enter their host.
The grubs are stored in "grub plots" out of doors for the winter, and ship-
ment is made the following spring. Much painstaking labor is thus required,
all of which is expensive in time and money. Such a shipment as that re-
ceived here this spring, consisting of some 20,000 parasitized grubs packed
in a minimum of sterile soil, weighs 3,000 pounds, and the express charge
from Seattle to Moorestown alone was 1300.11. The other two shipments of
parasites consisted of adults of Tiphia vernal is . The wasps, which are na-
tives of Korea, are shipped in tins provided with all the necessities of
life. The shipments this year arrived in remarkably fine condition. The
first, of 5,285 wasps, came through with 86.5 per cent alive and in good
condition. The second shipment, which consisted of older adults (some
5,700 in number), arrived with 64.7 per cent alive.

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On June 10 Tomosuke Nakashima, Plant Pathologist at the Chosen Agri-
cultural College, Suigen, Korea, visited the laboratory. Mr. Nakashima has
been associated with the work of the Department of Agriculture in Korea
since 1922. He was particularly interested in the work on parasites.

On June 11 Yoshio Ouchi, who was J. L. King's assistant while the lat-
ter was conducting parasite investigations at Suigen, Korea, in 1922, vis-
ited the Japanese-beetle Laboratory. He has been a student at Leland Stan-
ford University for the past two years.

On June 26 W. S. Abbott, W. M. Davidson, and D. P. Perry, of the Food,
Drug and Insecticide Administration, visited the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory
to consult with members of the staff.

On June 26 and 27 Dr. A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of the Bureau,
visited Moorestown and spent some time in visiting the various divisions of
the laboratory and conferring with L. B. Smith. On the morning of the 27th
Dr. Quaintance, Mr. Smith, C. H. Hadley, and J. L. King drove to Westbury,
Long Island. At Westbury they visited H. C. Hallock, in charge of the Bu-
reau's field laboratory there. Several trips were made into the field to
study experimental work and the damage caused by Anomalaorien tails and
Asericacastanea .

Prof. J. J. Davis, of Purdue University, spent three days early
in June at the laboratory at Moorestown, supervising the collection of
material containing Macrocentrus ancylivora. The parasites obtained were
for liberation in the peach-growing sections of Indiana that are heavily
infested with the oriental peach moth.

W. E. Steenburg, of the Canadian Entomological Branch, and D. M.
Daniels, of the New York (Geneva) Agricultural Experiment Station, spent
two weeks in June at Moorestown collecting larvae of the oriental peach
moth and the strawberry leaf roller, both parasitized with Macrocentrus
ancylivora. for shipment to the peach-growing sections of Ontario and New
York that are infested with the oriental peach moth.

G. J. Haeussler, of the peach-insect field laboratory at Moores-
town, will sail for Europe July 17 to begin a search for foreign parasites
of the oriental peach moth.

Dr. H. W. Allen has been transferred from the Japanese-beetle project
to peach-insect investigations, and will take charge of the work on parasites
of the oriental peach moth at the field laboratory at Moorestown.

A. C. Hodson, from the University of Minnesota, has been appointed
Field Assistant, and assigned to work on parasites of the oriental peach
moth, at Moorestown.

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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS
Harold Morrison, in Charge

On June 8 Vladimir W. Alpatov, of the University of Moscow, Russia,
now a student at Johns Hopkins University, visited the National Museum to
examine the National Collection of Apis. Accompanying him was Th. Dolzhaasky
of the University of Leningrad, Russia, now studying at the California
Institute of Technology, at Pasadena, who was interested in seeing the col-
lections of Coccinellidae, especially the North American material of the
genus Coccinella in the Casey collection.

Andre Seyrig, of Paris, France, a mining engineer and amateur spe-
cialist on Ichneumonidae, spent June 11 discussing these insects with R. A.
Cushman. He brought as a gift to Mr. Cushman a collection of about 150
specimens of European Ichneumonidae, including cotypes of three of his own
species .

J. A. G. Rehn, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
visited the Taxonomic Unit June 13 to confer with A. N. Caudell.

On June 12 G, J. Haeussier, of the field laboratory for the study
of peach insects, at Moo res town, N. J., called at the National Museum to
consult Bureau specialists about hymenopterous parasites of the oriental
peach moth. He was on his way to the field laboratory at Hyeres, Var,
France, maintained for the study of parasites of European insect pests in-
troduced into the United States.

On June 14 Dr. D. D. Hendrickson, a physician of Middletown, N. J.,
and Winterhaven, Fla., discussed the Mediterranean fruit fly with C. T.
Greene, dipterist in this unit.

Prof. M. A. Stewart, of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex., spent June
14 and 15 in the National Museum studying certain types of Siphonaptera, as
a step in his work of preparing a revision of the North American species.

On June 17 Dr. Ruth Marshall, Professor of Biology, Rockford Col-
lege, Rockford, 111., called at the Museum to examine types of water mites.
She was on her w ay to Europe, where she will spend the summer in study.

Carl Heinrich, of the Taxonomic Unit, returned June 19 from a trip
to Guatemala and Honduras, where he went to investigate the reported oc-
currence of the European corn borer.

Dr. E. A. Chapin visited the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., June
27 and examined the collection of beetles there. He spent June 28 at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he also examined
beetles, particularly the Scarabaeidae from the West Indies.

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On June 29 Allen S. Nicolay, of Upper Montclair, N. J., consulted
with W. S. Fisher in regard to certain Coleoptera, especially those of the
family Buprestidae.

INVESTIGATIONS OF INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge

About June 20 D. C, Parman returned to the field laboratory at Uvalde,
Tex., from the Coachella Valley, Calif., where he has been carrying on
investigations of the eye gnat (Hippelates) .

D. G. Hall, who recently received the degree of Master of Science
at Kansas State Agricultural College, has been appointed Assistant Ento-
mologist, effective June 10, and has been assigned to investigations of the
eye gnat at Coachella, Calif.

Dr. W. V. King returned to the field laboratory at Mound, La., June
15, after a furlough of six months, during which he conducted studies of
the Anopheles mosquitoes in the Philippines under the auspices of the In-
ternational Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.

On June 11 F. C. Bishopp and H. S. Peters started on a trip for
reconnaissance of the cattle grub, extending from Washington through Penn-
sylvania, southern New York, western Connecticut, western Massachusetts,
Vermont, and New Hampshire. Some experiments with these insects were per-
formed in western Vermont. Mr. Bishopp returned to Washington June 29.
J. L. Webb joined Mr. Peters at Burlington, Vt., June 30, to continue the
work under way there.

On June 19 J. L. Webb visited Florence, S. C., on business relating
to work on the boll weevil.

The Florida State Board of Health has applied to the Bureau of En-
tomology to have T. E. McNeel continue his studies on the biology and con-
trol of mosquitoes which he has been carrying on at Zellwood, Fla., since
last March. Mr. McNeel will continue this work for at least several weeks
longer.

H. M. Brundrett, Professor of Horticulture and Entomology at John
Tarleton College, Stephenville, Tex., has been given a temporary appointment
to continue investigations of fly sprays and spraying apparatus, to which
he has given some attention during the past two summers. Mr. Brundrett will
make his headquarters at the field laboratory at Dallas, Tex.

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FOREST-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS
F. C. Craighead, in Charge

Dr. Craighead spent a few days in the middle of June at the forest-
insect field laboratory at Asheville, N. C., consulting with J. A. Beal.
Mr. Beal has been transferred to a new forest-insect field laboratory which
is being established at Portland, Oreg., with F. P. Keen in charge. R.
A. St. George will assume responsibility for activities at the Asheville
laboratory.

A total of 12 field assistants have been appointed for the summer
from various forest schools in different parts of the United States. These
men are assisting on field projects in Montana, Idaho, California, Oregon,
Nebraska, Minnesota, Massachusetts and North Carolina. Several of them
have been with the Division of Forest Insects one or two seasons previously.

L. G. Baumhofer, who was stationed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, during
the winter, has been transferred to Halsey, Nebr. , where he is working on
the introduction of parasites of the pine tip moth in the pine plantations
in the vicinity of that place.

R. E. Balch, a field assistant who has been v/ith this division the
last two summers, reported for duty early in June and was assigned for that
month to the experiments in airplane dusting which are being conducted by
Dr. J. M. Swaine in Ontario, Canada. At the completion of this work Mr.
Balch will report in Montana, where he will study problems of defoliation.

On June 17 Dr. T. E. Snyder returned to Washington, D. C., after giv-
ing a course in biological entomology at the Department of Biology, Univer-
sity of Chicago, from April 1 to June 12.

William Middleton attended a conference at the Northeastern Forest
Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., on June 3; and on June 10 and 11, with
Dr. Carl Hartley, of the Division of Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, made an examination of some areas of dying pine in Maryland and
New Jersey.

Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory

The following college students have been given employment at the
Gipsy Moth Laboratory, for the summer season, reporting for duty in June:
J. T. Bingham, Ohio State University; J. L. Gardiner, University of Mary-
land; C. B. Green, Boston University; and S. C. Billings and A. J. Warren,
Massachusetts Agricultural College.

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Visitors at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory in June included R. E. Balch,
Forest Insect Investigations, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June 6; W. V. Tower,
San Juan, Porto Rico, June 10; and Ivan S. Jitlov, Forester, Short Hills,
N. J. , June 26.

D. F. Barnes, of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, left for Canada on June
23, to spend several days observing experiments in airplane dusting, par-
ticularly for the spruce bud worm, conducted by the Forest Insects Division,
Entomological Branch, Dominion of Canada, at Westree, Ontario, and Franquelin,
Quebec .

BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS
James I. Hambleton, In Charge

L. M, Bertholf, Professor of Biology, Western Maryland College, has
returned to the laboratory to continue his work on reactions to light in
the honeybee. He is devoting his attention this summer mainly to the re-
sponse of bees to ultra-violet light and its physiological effect on them.

Mary L. White, who has been employed at the laboratory for several
summers, has been reappointed temporary Field Assistant, to assist in the
work on bee diseases. Willis R. Doyle also has been appointed temporary
Field Assistant.

The Southern States Bee Culture Field Station, at Baton Rouge, La. ,
is very grateful to receive as a gift practically complete files of the
American Bee Journal and Gleanings in Bee Culture, from Prof. H. B. Parks,
Apiculturist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, San Antonio.
This addition is a very welcome one, and will form the nucleus for a bee-
keeping library which will be available not only to the scientific workers
in apiculture in the Southern States but to beekeepers as well.

Visitors at the laboratory in June included Henry Brown, of Cape May
Court House, N. J., one of the most prominent commercial beekeepers in New
Jersey, and Aubrey V. Smith, of Phoenix, Ariz., also a prominent commercial
beekeeper.

The Press Service announced on May 31 that arrangements had been made
to include chemical tests of honey where official United States certificates
of grade are desired. At the present time these tests will be made by the
food-products inspection service of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
This arrangement does not apply to samples which are graded, without charge,
merely for color, but to lots which are to have certificates of inspection.
The press release should be consulted for further details.

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TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS
J. E. Graf, in Charge

W. E. Stone, formerly in charge of the celery leaf-tyer investi-
gations at Sanford, Fla., has been temporarily detailed to the Plant Quar-
antine and Control Administration to assist in organizing the scouting for
wild hosts of the Mediterranean fruit fly.

Dr. N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, visited Norfolk, Va., June 5,
to inspect bean-beetle experimental plots and to discuss the control of
the Mexican bean beetle in that section with L. W. Brannon. He visited
Washington June 6.

The summer laboratory of the pea-aphid project at Columbus, Wis.,
w?as opened on June 10. J. E. Dudley, Jr., will be in charge.

S. J. Landis arrived at Mexico City on June 13, where he will in-
vestigate the biology and host relationships of the parasites of the Mex-
ican bean beetle.

W. J. Reid, Jr., Chadbourn, N, G., has been temporarily detailed
to Columbus, Ohio, where he will assist Dr. D. M. DeLong in the investi-
gation of the potato leafhopper on beans. Mr. Reid arrived at Columbus
on June 20.

The following employees attended the meetings of the Pacific Slope
Branch of the American Association of Economic Entomologists at Berkeley,
Calif., June 20 to 21: R. E. Campbell, Alhambra, Calif., J. C. Elmore,
Garden Grove, Calif., and E. W. Davis, Richfield, Utah.

L. W. Brannon, Norfolk, Va., N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, and W.
H. White, Washington, D. C., accompanied by entomologists from Maryland
and New Jersey, and others interested in the control of the bean beetle,
inspected bean fields on the Eastern Shore of Maryland June 27 and 28.
This inspection trip was conducted by Prof. E. N. Cory, State Entomologist
of Maryland, and had for its principal object the gathering of information
on the results obtained by the commercial growers on the control of the
bean beetle under conditions prevailing in this large commercial area.

0. A. Hills and J, C. Chamberlin have been appointed as Junior and
Associate Entomologists, respectively, the former to serve at Hermiston,

Oreg.

and the latter at Palo Alto, Calif.

The following appointments as field assistants have been made: L.
Jones, Twin Falls, Idaho; F. W. Fletcher, D. M. DeLong, D. F. Miller, and
R. W. Brubaker, Columbus, Ohio; E. C. Berber and H. Rosen, Philadelphia,
Pa.; E. W. Jones, Walla Walla, Wash.; J. R. Thomson, Chadbourn, N. C.;
V. E. Romney, State College, N. M.; V. F. Kent, Estancia, N. M. ; J. F. Roe,
T. E. Bronson, and J. H. Lilly, Madison, Wis.; and 0. W. Rosewall, Baton
Rouge, La.

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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge

About the middle of June Prof. Chas. J. Sorenson, of the Utah Agri-
cultural College, at Logan, visited the field laboratory at Tempe, Ariz.,
and conferred with the men there regarding investigations of the clover
and alfalfa seed chalcis fly which are being carried on in cooperation with
the State of Utah.

W. J. Phillips, in charge of the field laboratory at Charlottesville,
Va., spent June 27 in the Washington office.

W. R. Walton left Washington May 3 for a tour of inspection of the
southern and southwestern field laboratories of the division. He visited
New Orleans, Houma, and Crowley, La., and Beaumont and San Antonio, Tex.
At Albuquerque, N. M., he was joined by V. L. Wildermuth and J. C. Franken-
feld, of the field laboratory at Tempe, Ariz. The party visited the range-
caterpillar territory in northeastern New Mexico, where the eggs of the
insect were found to be present in extreme numbers. After completing plans
for the summer work there, an inspection was made of the summer cattle
ranges at the higher elevations. Messrs. Wildermuth and Walton also visited
several parts of New Mexico and Arizona, to examine and discuss the infesta-
tion by the southwestern corn borer. Among the regions examined was the
area lying between Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., and extending to the Mexican
border. E. G. Davis, of the field laboratory at Tempe, assisted in this
survey. Mr. Walton returned to Washington June 12.

Temporary appointments were given in June to Adam M. Celaya, at
Tempe, Ariz., Clyde B. Conger, Sacramento, Calif., James B. Gahan, Webster
Groves, Mo., and Richard A. Gaskins, Richmond, Va.

Carl Heinrich, specialist in Lepidoptera of the Taxonomic Unit of
the Bureau, who left Washington on April 9 to investigate the occurrence of
the European corn borer in Guatemala, as reported by Cosmio Riccio, returned
June 19 and submitted his report. Mr. Heinrich was fortunate enough to be
able to examine corn growing in the identical field in the neighborhood of
Antigua where Pyrausta nubilalis Htibn. was reported. No European corn borer
was found, but there was an injurious abundance of the Central American
corn borer, Diatraea lineolata Walker. Adult moths were reared from this
material and accurately determined as this species.

L. H. Worthley, in charge of corn-borer control, was in Washington
cn June 27 to consult with various officials regarding plans for the annual
survey of infestation by the European corn borer.

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COTTON INSECT INVESTIGATIONS
B. R. Coad, in Charge

In June B. R. Coad visited the State Experiment Station at College
Station, Tex., and conferred with Dr. F. L. Thomas relative to plans for
investigation of the pink bollworm and cotton bollworm. An arrangement
has now been perfected by which the bollworm investigations in Texas will
be handled on a cooperative basis similar to that for the work on the pink
bollworm. Under this system the investigations will be carried on jointly
by means of funds provided by the State of Texas and the Bureau of Entomol-
ogy, with Dr. Thomas in direct supervision of the field work.

In the latter part of June B. R. Coad and Messrs. McGinley, Payne,
and Long took two airplanes to Dallas, Tex., at the request of the Division
of Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture, to show meth-
ods of airplane dusting to the agricultural engineers then attending the
annual meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Engineers.

Early in June G. C. McGinley was appointed airplane pilot and re-
ported for duty.

The following were appointed temporary field assistants, and reported
for duty in June: At Tallulah, La., J. C. Sherwin, K. H. Smith, J. D.
Williamson, Syrus Conn, D. H. Ratcliff, S. D. Sumerford, L. W. Noble, Josh
Randolph, H. D. Tate, V. L. Pearson, D. G. Long, L. B. Reed, A. B. Beavers,
L. D. Christenson, B. C. Stephenson, and L. H. Subblefield; at Florence,
S. C., W. A. Brunson, M. R. Buffkin, W. J. Moore, and E. V. Welsh; and at
Tucson, Ariz., J. A. Downs.

TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL, AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS

A. C. Baker, in Charge

Dr. A. C. Baker returned June 24 to his temporary headquarters at
Orlando, Fla., after spending a wee k in Washington. While here he con-
ferred with various persons in the Bureau of Entomology and the Plant Quar-
antine and Control Administration on the research work on the Mediterranean
fruit fly which he is now conducting in Florida.

Since about the middle of May Harold Lewis, of the California Fruit
Growers' Exchange, has been at the field laboratory at Lindsay, Calif.,
familiarizing himself with the problem of the citrus thrips and assisting
E. A. McGregor, in charge, in the work on that insect.

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LIBRARY

Mabel Colcord, Librarian
NEW BOOKS

Amans , P . G .

Rapports scientifiques entre le vol de 1'abeille et la navigation
aerienne . . . 46 p., illus. Bruxelles, Impr. des Travaux Publics,
1S25, (At head of title: Exposition d'lxelles (18-19-20 Octobre

1S24) concours 156. Principaux memoires du Dr. Amans sur la loco-
motion aerienne et aquatique: p. 45-46.)

Arlington, L. C.

Cricket culture in China. China Journal, v. 10, No. 3, p. 135-
142, March, 1929.

Bahr, Fritz.

Fritz Bahr's commercial floriculture. A practical manual for the
retail grower. Ed. 3, rev. 615 p. , illus. New York, A. T. De la
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Bishara, Ibrahim.

Preliminary experiments with dusting and spraying against insect
pests of cotton. 11 p., pi., 2 diagrs. Cairo, Government Press,
1928. (Egypt. Ministry of Agriculture. Tech, and Sci. Service,
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Bcselli, F. B.

Studi sugli Psyllidi Homoptera: Psyllidae o Chermidae, I-III. Bol.

Lab. di Zooi. Gen. e Agr. R. 1st. Sup. Agr. Portici, v. 21, p. 218-
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Carter, H. J.

Check list of the Australian Buprestidae. Australian Zoologist,
v. 5, pt. 4, p. 265-303, pi. 31-32", March 24, 1929.

Christophers, S. R. , and Coveil, G.

How to do a malaria survey. 146 p., illus. Calcutta, Central Pub-
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Die stiftfuhrenden Sinnesorgane; Morphologic und Physiologie der
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Ewing, H. E.

A manual of external parasites. 225 p., illus. Springfield, 111.,
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Gregory, C. T. and Davis, J. J.

Common garden pests. What they are and how to control them. 150
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Haupt, H.

Homoptera Palestinae I. 41 p. Tel-Aviv, Palestine, Aug., 1927.
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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

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Ingram, Alexander, and Meillon, Botha de.

A mosquito survey of certain parts of South Africa with special ref-
erence to the carriers of malaria and their control. Parts 1-2
(170 p.). (So. African Inst, for Med. Research. Pubs. No. XXII, Oct.,
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Meisel, Max.

A bibliography of American natural history . . . v. 3, The institu-
tions founded or organized between 1845 and 1865. Bibliography of
books. Chronological tables. Index of authors and institutions. Ad-
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Misra, C. S.

The cultivation of lac in the plains of India (Laccifer lacea, Kerr) .
116 p., illus., pi. Calcutta, Central Publication Branch, 1929. (Agr.
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142. )

Mordwilko, A. K.

Food plant catalogue of the Aphididae of U. S, 8. R. 100 p., illus.
Leningrad, 1929. (Leningrad State Inst. Applied Agron. Bureau of Ap-
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Sawyer, W. H. , Jr,

Observations on some entomogenous members of the Entomophthoraceae in
artificial culture. American Journal of Botany, v. 16, No. 2, p. 87-
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Coleopterorum catalogus auspici.is et auxilio W. Junk. Pars 102-104,
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Sharif, M.

A revision of the Indian Ixcdidae with special reference to the col-
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National Malaria Committee meeting conjointly with the Southern Medi-
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