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7 On seg. I above, seg. 2 below and pronotum only .... i o 



8 On seg. 2 below and postscutellum only I o 



9 On seg. I above and postscutellum only I i 



10 On seg. i above, and pronotum only I o 



11 On seg. i above, pronotum and postscutellum only. . i o 



Total.. 47 j6 



With white crossbands only on segs. 2 and 3 above .. 16 n 



With additional white markings 31 5 



Specimens examined, Raleigh: 33 males, 9 females; Elizabeth City: 6 

 males, I female; Andrews: 4 males, I female; Jefferson: i male; Blowing 

 Rock: i male; Bushnell: i male; Statesville: I male; Greensboro: 2 fe- 

 males; Durham, Blantyre and Whittier: i female each. All localities in 

 North Carolina and all specimens taken between mid-July and mid-Sep- 

 tember. 



House Flies in Court. 



One of the noblest decisions on record, so far as bald-headed men are 

 concerned, has been handed down by the Supreme Court of Maine. It 

 is notorious that a bald head has a peculiar attraction for the common 

 house fly. He prefers to roost there or promenade there to any other 

 place in the neighborhood. Now the high court has declared the bald- 

 headed persons are entitled to protection. In the case of Williams vs: 

 Sweet, a hotelkeeper sued because the defendant, who had contracted for 



.accommodations for a certain period, left the hotel before the time had 

 elapsed. The defendant said he was pestered by flies, which were par- 

 ticularly numerous in the dining room. 



The august court held that the fly is a nuisance and its disease-carry- 

 ing characteristics are well known. A patron of a hotel was warranted in 

 leaving the establishment, regardless of a contract for a longer stay, if the 

 dining room was infested with the pests. An innkeeper, it declared, agreed 

 by implication to furnish accommodations compatible with the prices 

 paid, the standing of the hostelry and the class of persons invited to be- 



come patrons. "Accommodations," the judges asserted, included apart- 

 ments, dining service and sanitary conditions, and if the hotelkeeper failed 

 to maintain these in inviting and wholesome manner the patron was war- 

 ranted in seeking quarters elsewhere, regardless of an engagement to 

 remain for any specified time. 



Hotel men had better get busy with their fly swatters. Restaurant 

 people also. RICHARD SPILLANE in the Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Aug. 

 4, 1920. 



