Oregon. D, C # Mote ( July 15)1 Humorous infestations in houses 
in a newly irrigated area in eastern Oregon, 
reported 
REDUVIIDS (Triatona spp, ) 
Arizona. R. A. Flock (July 12): T. rub i da Uhl or and T. longipes Barher 
are connon in houses and causing serious "bites at Safford, Graham 
County, and Benson, Cochise County, T. rub i da is the more common 
at Safford. 
CHIGGER ( Eutronbicula. alfroddugesi Oud.) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July 24): More than the usual number of complaints 
received. 
Missouri,, 
out 
L 8 Hascnan (July 26): Complaints received from points through- 
the State continue to come in. 
BROOT DOG TICK 
( Phipic ephalus sanguineus Latr. ) 
Maryland. E. IT. Cory (July 19 ) : Infosta.tion in a house in Baltimore. 
Missouri. L. Hascnan (July 28): A few complaints received during July from 
the larger cities. 
AMERICAN DOG TICK ( Pernacentor variabilis Say) 
Massachusetts. C. H. Smith (June 30 ): Adults twice as abundant on 
Marthas Vineyard during June as in 1940, Adults were not parti- 
cularly numerous on Cape Cod, and infestations were usually light, 
though widespread. A deer shot in an area on Maushon Island where 
ticks occurred was uninfested. 
Maryland. Helen L. Trombley (July 27 ): Uoticeably fewer on a farm 
east of Rockville. Hone observed on persons, whereas earlier in 
the season they were present. About a dozen ticks, from unengorged 
to two-thirds engorged, were removed from a dbg, 
Missouri. L. Hasenan (July 28): The wood tick Pernacentor sp. is abundant. 
. CAT TLB 
SCREWWORM ( Cochlionyia amor icon a C. & P.) 
Texas. Vf. C. Maxwell (July 2l): Infestation in the coastal bend .area is 
reported as the most severe in several years. 
D. C. arm an (July 22): Adult population on the western Salcones 
Escarpment for the latter half of June is the highest on record dur- 
ing tho last 6 ye cars. Population on the eastern part of the escarp- 
ment is approximately normal, or bclo w normal, as it also is on the 
Rio Grande plain. Population is very low on the immediate Gulf plain 
and east of San Antonio to Dallas, 
