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OLEANDER - : - 
POLKA DOT WASP MOTH ( Syntomeida epilais Walk.) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (March 23) : No oleander caterpillars have been seen 
in Gainesville section. Moths all killed out by cold 1 and have not had 
time to reinfest region from Orlando southward. . ... .... VA. •; 
... ... .. . PRIMROSE 
A STEEL-BLUE FLEA BEETLE 1 ( Altica torquata Lee-.) • 
Arizona. F. H. Parker (March 18): Steel-blue grapevine flea beetle num- 
erous on primroses in a garden at Tempe. 
INSEC TS. ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS • • 
MAN 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (March 6): Anopheles punctipennis Say reported at 
Florence on February 24 • '• ■ * ' 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 25): Annoyance reported in one locality in 
Forrest County. 
Washington. C. M. Gjullin (February 28): Large numbers of hibernating 
Anopheles sp. and Culex pipiens L. taken in outdoor fruit cellars near 
Yakima, while a total of only 7 Culex tar sails Coq. were found in 12 
cellars inspected* 
•California. A. W. Lindquist (March 27): Apparently a new locality and 
most northerly record of Orthopodomyia signifera Coq, was taken from 
an oak-tree hole-on' peak of Bartlett Mountain, 7 miles- from Nice, at 
an elevation of 4»000 feet. Only one tree hole of six contained Ortho- 
podomyia , but all six contained Aedes varipalpus Coq. 
' BRG7N DOG. TICK. ( Rhipic.ephalus sanguineus Latr.) 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (March 25): Reported from Culver in -February. 
CATTLE 
STABLEFLY ( Stomoxys calcitrans L.) 
Florida. S. W. Simmons (March 24): On March 18 in Seminole and Sarasota 
Couhties, adults began to emerge frbm waste celery stripping.* Continu- 
ing to emerge from uncovered peanut litter in Jackson County, and 300 
to 400 would often be found on a car parked in the vicinity. 
CATTLE GRUBS ( Hypoderma spp.) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (March 28): Heel-fly larvae taken from backs of 
cattle at Robertsville . 
