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MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Number 191

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DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge

Under funds appropriated in the First Deficiency Bill, large-
scale experiments looking to the control of the oriental fruit moth
with the aid of bait traps will be carried out in two orchards of over
500 acres each, one at Vincennes, Ind. , and the other at Cornelia, Ga.
Vim. P. Yetter, jr., will have charge of the work at both places.

Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory

On March 11 J. S. Houser, Chief Entomologist of the Ohio Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, at Wooster, spent the day at the laboratory
visiting a number of the divisions and conferring with the staff.

Prof. D. M. DeLong, of Ohio State University, and Dr. N. F. Howard,
of the Division of Truck-Crop Insects, spent the afternoon of March 11
inspecting the laboratory equipment and conferring with the local en-
tomologists .

W. P, Yetter, Jr., of the Division of Deciduous-Fruit Insects,
visited the laboratory on March 11 to confer with L. B. Smith, in charge
of work on the Oriental fruit moth in this district.

E. R. Van Leeuwen, in charge of general insecticide investiga-
tions, returned to the laboratory on March 16 from a furlough of three
and one-half months. During his absence from the laboratory Mr. Van
Leeuwen was in charge of the Department of Entomology at the Davey In-
stitute of Tree Surgery, Kent, Ohio. A course in shade-tree insects
was given to the freshman, junior, and senior classes of the Institute
by Mr. Van Leeuwen and his assistant, E. A. Sanford, of the Davey Tree
Expert Company.

On March 18 J. K. Holloway and J. W. Balock, who are engaged in
parasite work at the laboratory, visited the Corn Borer Laboratory at
Arlington and the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, both in Mas-
sachusetts. The trip was most profitable, as many methods used in those
laboratories may be adopted here.

On March 20 Prof. C. C. Hamilton, of Rutgers University, and Rob-
ert C. Burdette, Associate Entomologist of the New Jersey Agricultural
Experiment Station, visited the laboratory to confer with the local staff.

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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS
J. E. Graf, in Charge

J. E. Graf left Washington March 12 for an inspection of the
truck-crop field laboratories of the West and Northwest, and in the
course of his journey visited laboratories at Columbus, Ohio, Twin Falls,
Idaho, Walla Walla, Toppenish, and Puyallup, Wash., Alhambra and San
Jose, Calif., and Tempe, Ariz.

B. J. Landis, of the field laboratory at San Jacinto, D. F.,
Mexico, went from there to Columbus, Ohio, February 21, for conference
regarding the future work on parasites of the Mexican bean beetle.

Dr. N. F. Howard, Columbus, Ohio, J. E. Dudley, jr., Madison,
Wis., J. R. Douglass, Estancia, N. M. , and R. Cecil, Geneva, N. Y.,
the two last named being temporarily on duty at Columbus, Ohio, at-
tended the meetings of the North Central States Entomologists at La-
fayette, Ind., March 6 and 7.

K. L . Cockerham, in charge of the field laboratory at Biloxi,
Miss., spent March .13 to 15 at the Mississippi Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, where he studied the college collection of Elater-
idae and reviewed the literature on this group in the college library.

J. E. Dudley, jr., attended the fourth canners' school, held
at the University of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin State Canners' Asso-
ciation, March 19 to 21, where he discussed the present status of the
pea aphid.

K. L. Cockerham and 0. T. Deen, Biloxi, Miss., spent the interval
from March 18 to March 25 in northwestern Florida, scouting for the wire-
worm Heteroderes laurentii, in the course of which they visited Escam-
bia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes, Jackson, and Bay Counties.

Dr. Walter Carter, who has been in charge of the investigation
of the sugar-beet leafhopper, with headquarters at Twin Falls, Idaho,
since its inauguration in 1925, resigned March 21, to accept a position
as entomologist with the Pineapple Growers' Experiment Station, Uni-
versity of Hawaii, Honolulu.

J. R. Douglass, in charge of the field laboratory at Estancia,
N. M. , visited Washington March 25 to 31, for conference and prepara-
tion of a manuscript on the hibernation of the Mexican bean beetle in
the Southwest.

On March 29 K. L. Cockerham visited Henry Deitrich, Inspector
for the State Plant Board, at Lucedale, Miss., where he examined the
latter's collection of Elateridae. Mr. Deitrich has collected one speci-
men of Heteroderes laurentii from George County, Miss., the first found

in that county.

T. E. Bronson, formerly Agent at the Madison, Wis., field lab-
oratory, has received a probational appointment as Junior Entomologist.

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Field assistants who have recently been appointed are W. I. Du-
plessis and G. H. York, for service at Alhambra, Calif,, R. D. Church,
at Walla Walla, Wash,, R. J. Severance, at Toppenish, Wash., and H. L,
Dees, at Grand Bay, Ala.

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

On March 11 W. G. Bruce, of the field laboratory at Fargo, N.
D., arrived in Washington by auto from Florida. After conferring with
bureau officials he left on March 15 to resume his duties at Fargo,
driving overland by auto.

T. E. McNeel, of the field laboratory at Mound, La., has returned
to Zellwood, Fla., to continue the study of mosquitoes of the genus
Mansonia, which he began last year.

On March 25 J. L. Webb, of Washington, D. C., made an examina-
tion of cattle in the dairy herd of the Elks' National Home at Bedford,
7a., and other herds in the vicinity, to determine the degree of in-
festation by cattle grubs there.

D. C. Parman, of the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex., spent
most of the month of March at Coachella, Calif. , in investigations of
the eye gnat at that place.

H. E. Parish, formerly on the staff of the Mississippi State
Plant Board, ha? been appointed Assistant Entomologist and assigned
to the field laboratory at Menard, Tex. He reported there for duty
March 27, and will relieve E. C. Cushing, who will soon go to Alaska to
continue the investigations of reindeer insects begun by W. E. Dove in
1929.

Merwin Monagin has been appointed Field Assistant, dating from
March 8, and assigned to the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex.

INSECT PEST SURVEY
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge

J. A. Hyslop attended the annual meeting of the North Central
States Entomologists held at La Fayette, Ind., March 5 to 8. At this
meeting approximately 80 entomologists from the States west of the Al-
leghenies, east of the Rockies, and north of the Cotton Belt, were in
attendance. Plans for more extensive cooperation with the Insect Pest
Survey were formulated with several States.

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FOREST INSECTS
F. C. Craighead, in Charge

At the request of the War Department, Dr. T. E. Snyder left Wash-
ington on March 29 to inspect, with a representative of the Forest Prod-
ucts Laboratory, military supplies of wood at arsenals in Rock Island,
111., New Cumberland, Pa., and Springfield, Mass. These inspections are
made periodically, to prevent serious accumulative damage by powder-
post beetles.

Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory

R. C. Brown, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, sailed from New York
City on March 12 to return to his temporary headquarters in Budapest,
Hungary. Before reaching Budapest he will visit Sweden in search of
information regarding parasites of a sawfly, Phyllotoma nemorata Fall.,
which has recently attracted considerable attention as a leaf-miner of
birch in Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

R. T. Webber went to Washington on March 17, expecting to spend
about two weeks there. He will study certain tachinid material at the
National Museum.

T. H. Jones went to Washington March 25, to confer with Dr. F.
C. Craighead on some problems relating to the experimental work con-
ducted at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory.

BEE CULTURE

Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge

On the afternoon of March 26 several members of the staff of
the Bee Culture Laboratory attended a very interesting lecture by Dr.
Karl von Frisch, of the University of Munich, on the behavior of the
honeybee. Doctor von Frisch's lecture, given in the auditorium of the
Engineering Building at Johns Hopkins University, was well illustrated
with excellent lantern slides and marvelous motion-picture films, showing
the behavior of the honeybee in its reactions to colors, odors, and
taste. Even the evidence of "language" in the honeybee was clearly shown
by the use of films.

Dr. A. ~. Sturtevant and J. E. Eckert, of the Intermountain Bee
Culture Field Station, Laramie, Wyo., have reported that the annual
meeting of the Colorado Honey Producers' Association, held in Denver
on March 4 and 5, which they attended, was one of the best meetings
ever held by the association. Both Dr. Sturtevant and Mr. Eckert ap-
peared on the program and discussed various phases of the experimental
work now under way at the Laramie Station.

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Kennith Hawkins was a recent visitor at the Bee Culture Labora-
tory, with which he was formerly connected.

E. R. Root, associate editor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, con-
sulted with members of the Bee Culture Laboratory on a recent visit to
Washington.

D. E. Kohn, of Grover Hill, Ohio, a prominent beekeeper in his
home State, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory on March 20 while on
his way home from Florida, where he also has extensive beekeeping in-
terests .

On March 20 Jas. I. Hambleton visited the vicinity of Westmin-
ster and New Windsor, Md., on an inspection trip for the location of an
experimental apiary.

COTTON INSECTS
B. R. Coad, in Charge

H. C. Young, M. T. Young, Andrew Chapman, and G. L. Smith, who
have completed field work on the Thurberia weevil in Arizona, have been
transferred to Presidio, Tex., for work on the pink bollworm.

Rex McGarr, who has been in Arizona for four months, working on
the Thurberia weevil, has been transferred to Brownsville, Tex., where he
will work on the cotton flea hopper.

The appointment of D. L, Moody, Field Assistant, ended March 1.

Syrus Conn, Junior Entomologist, resigned March 11.

C. A. Bennett, Mechanical Engineer, of the Bureau of Public Roads,
who has been cooperating with the field laboratory at Tallulah, La.,
in cotton-drying investigations, was in Dallas, Tex., during the first
week in March to confer with one of the large gin companies and to make
preliminary tests of all-steel cotton driers built upon the lines indi-
cated by the field laboratory. He also visited Jackson, Miss., to confer
with a representative of an eastern firm making cotton gins, with whom
he made tentative plans for the erection by this company of driers of
the type devised. The processes and methods patented as the result of
the investigations carried on at the field laboratory are beginning to
create much interest and to receive wide recognition.

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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS
A. C. Baker, in Charge

On March 15 Dr. A. C. Baker returned to Washington from Orlando,
Fla., to confer with Dr. Marlatt and Mr. Strong in regard to the re-
search work on the Mediterranean fruit fly, which he has been direct-
ing.

Dr. C. I. Bliss was transferred on March 5 to the new regional
laboratory of this division located at Whittier, Calif., where he will
have charge of the technical phases of the investigations carried on
there, especially those having to do with the resistance to hydrocyanic-
acid gas of scale insects affecting citrus.

In response to requests for talks on control of thrips, E. A.
McGregor, in charge of the field laboratory at Lindsay, Calif., has
addressed gatherings in six localities in California — at Elderwood,
January 22, Orange Cove, February 14, Lindsay, February 18, Porter-
ville, February 21, Ivanhoe, March 7, and Strathmore, March 25. On
March 14, at the request of the Southern California Entomological Club,
Mr. McGregor read a paper at Los Angeles, discussing the somewhat in-
novational finding that under conditions prevailing in California scale
insects may be controlled by applications of finely divided sulphur.

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge

The meetings of the North Central States Entomologists at La-
fayette, Ind., March 5 to 7, were attended by D. J. Caffrey, L. H. Patch,
A. F. Satterthwait, L, G. Jones, C. A. Crooks, L. L. Pierce, C. N. Ains-
lie, M. Schlosberg, C. M. Packard, W. B. Noble, H. R. Painter and G. G.
Ainslie, all of the field personnel of this division.

In March Emory D. Burgess was appointed Junior Entomologist,
for duty at Arlington, Mass., and Antonio A. Celaya, Junior Laborer, for
duty at Tempe, Ariz.

The Washington office was visited on March 12 by Dr. D. M. De-
Long, of Ohio State University, Columbus, and by L. H. Worthley, of
Boston, Mass., and H. N. Bartley, of Silver Creek, N. Y. , both of the
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration.

The field laboratory formerly located at 337 Franklin Street,
Carlisle, Pa., has been moved to 624 West Louther Street, in the same
city.

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Dr. Carl J. Drake, of the Iowa State College, at Ames, was in
Washington on March 13 and 14 and called at the Bureau of Entomology.

TAXONOMY

Harold Morrison, in Charge

Prof. C. J. Drake, of the department of zoology and entomology,
Iowa State College, at Ames, spent parts of March 8, 12 and 13 in the
taxonomic unit, working on Hemiptera and discussing various problems
with some of the taxonomic workers.

Stansbury Haydon, of the Natural History Society, Baltimore, Md. ,
called at the taxonomic unit March 8 to examine certain forms of North
American Papilio and to obtain determinations of some beetles.

R. T. Webber, of the Bureau's Gipsy Moth Laboratory, at Melrose
Highlands, Mass., has since March 17 been studying muscoid flies in the
Division of Insects and consulting with Dr. J. M. Aldrich.

Prof. R. M. Geist, of the department of zoology. Capital Univer-
sity, Columbus, Ohio, spent March 17 to 19 studying the collection of
Mallophaga and consulting with Dr. H. E. Ewing about the host relation-
ships and distribution of mites.

J. R. Douglass, of the Bureau's Mexican bean beetle field labora-
tory at Estancia, N. M., was a recent caller in the section of Coleop-
tera.

Dr. Theodore B. Hayne, of the staff of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion, stationed at Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, called at the taxonomic
unit March . 21 to consult with the Bureau's specialist, C. T. Greene,
regarding African mosquitoes.

Prof. G. C. Crampton, of the department of entomology, Massachu-
setts Agricultural College, at Amherst, spent March 24 and 25 in the
National Museum examining certain flies in connection with morphologi-
cal investigations on the thorax of Diptera.

T. H. Jones, of the Bureau's Gipsy Moth Laboratory, at Melrose
Highlands, Mass., visited the section of Diptera March 27 and consulted
the specialists.

Andrew G. Weeks, of Boston, Mass., a well-known student of Lepi-
doptera, came to Washington March 28 to consult Dr. William Schaus and
to examine material in the National collections of Lepidoptera.

H. F. Dietz, at present located at the Ohio Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, Wooster, called at the taxonomic unit on the afternoon of
March 11.

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LIBRARY

Mabel Colcord, Librarian
NEW BOOKS

Anderssen, F. G.

Sulphur dioxide in dried fruit. 14 p. Pretoria, Government Printer,
1929. (Univ. of South Africa Dept. Agr. Science Bui. 84.)

Beraldi, Angelo.

Malattie delle piante; divers! metodi di lotta prevenzione e cura.
Manuale teorico-pratico ad uso degli studenti delle scuola agrarie
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At head of title: Manual! Hoepli. Dott. Angelo Beraldi. (Bib-

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Bologna. Regia Istituto superiore agrario — -Laboratorio di entomolo-
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Borcea, I.

Degats causes par les bostrychides en Roumanie. Annales Scien-
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260, 1924.

Chang, T. C., and Kellogg, C. R.

Locusts in Chinese literature. Fukien Christian University, Foo-
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June, 1929.

Fage, Louis.

Les scorpions de Madagascar. Paris, Societe d' editions geograph-
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Felt, E. P.

Insects and diseases affecting trees and shrubs of parks and gar-
dens. Spray handbook. 35 p. Stamford, Conn., Bartlett Tree Re-
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Fraser, F. C.

A revision of the Fissilabioidea (Cordulegasteridae, Petalidae
and Petaluridae) (Order Odonata) , Parti. Cordulegasteridae. Mem-
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French, A. D. Le P, , and Anderson, T. J.

A report on the campaign against Stephancderes, 1929. 19 p.. Tab.
Nairobi, Government Printer, 1930. (Kenya Colony & Protectorate.
Dept. Agr. Bui. 10.)

Harrison, E.

History and activities of locusts in Kenya and relative costs of
destruction. 26 p., Nairobi, East African Standard, Ltd., 1929.
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Hull, T. G.

Diseases transmitted from animals to man . . . with an introduc-
tion by V. A. Moore. 352 p. , illus. Springfield, 111., and Bal-
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Hustache, Alphonse.

Curculionides de la Guadeloupe v. 1, illus. Paris, Societe d'Ed-
itions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1929. (Faune des
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Ishii, Tei.

The Encyrtidae of Japan. 76-160 p., illus. Nishigahara, Tokyo,
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Kalshoven, L. G. E.

De Biologie van de Djatitermiet (Kalotermes tectonae Damra. ) in
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H. Veenan & Zonen, 1930.

Karny, H.

Revision der Gryllacriden des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien,
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Kinsey, A. C.

The gall wasp genus Cynips. A study in the origin of species . . .
577 p., illus., pi. Bloomington, Ind. , Feb. 27, 1930. (Indiana
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Maskew, F. V.

A sketch of the origin and evolution of quarantine regulations.
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Munro, J. W. , and Thomson, W. S.

Report on insect infestation of stored cacao. Prepared for the
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Myers, J. G.

Report on insect infestation of dried fruit, submitted to the Em-
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Europe and the Near East, compiled and drawn in the cartographic
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Przibram, Hans.

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Die Rohstoffe des Tierreichs, hrsg. von Ferdinand Pax und Walther Arndt.

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Severin, H. H, P.

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Prakticka entomologie ve apojenych statech severoamerickych . . .

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