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The oriental rat flea ( Xenopsylla cheap is (Rothschild)), the chief trans- 
mitter of bubonic plague to nan, has for many years been known to occur in the 
warmer port cities of the United States hut it has "been thought that the colder 
climate of the interior would, probably prevent its development there, neverthe- 
less, in 193*+ it was found at Ames, Iowa, and in 1936 at St. Paul, Minn., and 
H. E. Ewing and Irving Eox now record it fron two additional inland and northern 
localities, namely, Urbana, 111., and Youngstown, Ohio. 
Trachyphloeus bif oveolatu s Beck (dot. by L. L. Buchanan), a weevil previous- 
ly recorded from only two or thr^e localities in the Eastern States, was recently 
found in abundance on the porches of houses and, to a lesser extent, indoors at 
Portland, Oreg. 
Two specimens of Musci na pabulorum (Fall.) (det. by D. G-. Hall), a relative- 
ly uncommon European species, were collected during the past fall in the vicinity 
of Boston, Mass., by Richard Dow, Curator, Boston Society of Natural History. 
This is the first North American record for the species. 
Ants, Eciton ( Lahidus ) caecum (Latr. ) (det. hy M. R. Smith), were collected 
on July S, 193S, at Menard, Tex., by Roy Melvin, who reported that they were 
attacking newly emerged adults of the primary screwworin (Cochliomyia americana 
C. and P.). 
