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D. L. Wrav (April 19): A heavy infestation of R. flavipes found doing 
considerable damage td< English laurel at Greensboro. Most of the plants 
previously damaged, by peach borer ( Conopia exit iosa Say). 
Tennessee. L. 3. Sc^tt (April l4) : Many swarms of termites roprted late in 
March and early in Apiril in Montgomery County, north-central Tennessee, 
in normal -abundance, ' 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (April 24): Complaints submitted almost daily • of ■ termite 
trouble in houses. Abundance normal. 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (April 19): Termite flights recorded from 3aroda, Grand 
* Haven, Grass Lake, Grand Rapidd, Jackson, and Hillsdale. 
Missouri, A. C. Burrill (April 3): Despite '2 to 6 years of drought and of 
control treatments, the Jefferson City area is heavily infested every year 
with R, flavipes , ;• 
Nebraska. M. H. S^enk (April 20): R. tibialis Banks reported as attacking 
rhubarb leav s in Nuckolls County on April 17, and found damaging a lily 
plant in Dodge County on March 29. House in Douglas County reported as in- 
fested on April 9,* 
Oklahoma.. E. A. Fenton (April 2l): Termites,- probably R. flavipes . reported in 
Geary, Shawnee, Oklahoma City, Walter, arid Mcloud, 
Iowa* C. J. Drake (April 25): Letters regarding termite injury to wood received 
from Mystic, Boone, Mason City, Red. Oak, Ottumwa, Ogden, and Rockwell City. 
At Ogden examination of an infested residence revealed many of the timbers 
almost entirely destroyed. 
Utah, J. C. Hamlin (March- 2.9): Termite injury to residential property in Salt 
Lake Citv reported in March. by several persons. 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (April 24): Subterranean termites reported as infesting 
several residences in Reno. ■ ■ 
Wash in vton. M. II. Hatch (April 6): Zootermops is angus ticollis Hagen reported 
as injuring the wooden structure of a residence in Olympia. 
ANTS (Formic id ae) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (March 27): ?a rat re china longicornis Latr. generally 
prevalent in a lnfrge hotel at New Haven. (Det. by M. R. Smith.) 
Florida. G. 3. Merrill (April IS): Sjjocinens of Wasmannia auropunctata Roger 
taken at Apopka and Winter Garden, central Florida. (Det. by M. R. Smith.) 
Mississippi, C, L^le ( April 2l): Specimens of Argentine ant ( iridomyrmex 
4iyUlis Mayr) received on March 28 from a farm' in Yazoo Courity. ' Specimens of 
the fire ant Solenopsis xyloni McCook received from Noxubee, Clay, and Sun- 
flower Counties, and reports from Leflore County as causing injury in 
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