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ANOTHER HUMAN UUT FLY. 



Apropos of the interesting- article on "A Mau-iufesting Bot," Insect 

 Life i^o. 3 (Vol. I, p. 7G-S0) it may be iti order to call attention to an 

 account of a similar or identical species presented in some " Additional 

 Observations on the Parasites of Man and Domestic Animals," appended 

 to Prof. A. E. Verrill's valuable Reports on the External and Internal 

 Parasites of Man and Domestic Animals, and which does not seem to 

 have been familiar to Dr. Matas at the time of writinjj his article. In 

 the case recorded by Professor Verrill, in which the insect is referred 

 doubtfully to IJermatohia uoxialis, it appears that the patient, a resi- 

 dent of Mississippi, became infested in that State, which would indicate 

 an extension of the species into this country, or the occurrence of a very 

 nearly related species here. 



Ill tbe last report (page 95) it was mentioned that a species of bot-fly lives in 

 the larval state beneath the hnman skin, forming painful tumors. But such in- 

 stances had been observed only in the tropical parts of Central and South America- 

 It is, therefore, of interest to record a similar case iu the United States. In this in- 

 stance a young woman twenty-two years old, residing at Meridian, Miss., was the 

 victim of the insect. The larva?, developed from eggs deposited in the skin by the 

 fly, caused great irritation and pain in the subcutaneous tissues, resulting in large 

 abscesses, from which the mature larva? finally escaped. 



lam indebted to Dr. William B. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, Ind., for a specimen of 

 the larva of the insect which was taken from this patient and sent to him by Dr. 

 James Hughes, who treated the case. Whether it be identical with the South Amer- 

 ican species can not be determined from the larvae alone. — H. Osborn. 



CtEOgraphical range of the chinch bug. 



In the section on the distribution of iliis insect, in Bulletin 17 of this 

 Division, and in the Annual Report for 1887, only two localities outside 

 of the United States were mentioned, viz: Cuba, according toSignoret 

 and Uhler, and Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to Uhler. We have 

 since noticed that Mr. W. L. Distant records it as extending southward 

 through Mexico, Guatemnla, and Honduras, and in the Biologia Ceu- 

 trali-Americana records it as captured by Champion at the following 

 points : 



Guatemala. — San Geronimo, Paso Antonio, Panzos, Champerico, and Rio Naranjo. 

 PajiflHia.— Volcan de Chiriqui, 2,000-3,000 ft. 



DAMAGE TO FRUIT BY THE ADULT OF ALLOKHINA. 



The Pacific Rural Press calls attention to the damage done by an 

 Allorhina to ripe peaches in Arizona. The statement is made that it 

 appears after the first summer rains, apparently from the low moist 

 lauds, and immediately seeks the peach orchards, where it selects the 

 choicest fruit:: and ruins them. In case there are no ripening peaches 

 it feeds upon grapes, and even upou growing corn-stalks. It disappears 

 during the latter part of August. When they are Dlentiful several will 



