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Nebraska 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
.FLEAS ( Otenocephalus sn.,) 
J. V. Schaffncr, Jr. (August 20): A i-feat many residents of 
eastern Massachusetts have been troubled with- infestations of 
fleas in their households the past few .weeks.. In each case I 
found they- possessed cither a. cat or a dog. 
M..- L. Didlake (August 24): Fleas are very abundant in houses 
at Lexington. 
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H. II. Fettit (August 7): The cat flea was never so trouble- 
some in Michigan as right now. 
M. H. Swenk (July 15 - August l): Numerous reports of in- 
festations with fleas in houses, barns, chicken houses, and 
other buildings continued to come from eastern Nebraska during 
the second half of July. 
SAND FLIES ( Culicoides sp.-) ' 
J. 3. Hull (August 1-20): Sand flics known to us as Culi- 
coides rr.cllcus Coq. are annoy in _ ; pests of nan at a cemetery in 
the city of Charleston. (August 1 - 20): The tropical sand 
fly, C. fur ens Foey, continues to energe during the summer- 
months. It has not been annoying in residences in the city of 
Charleston, but is present at Folly Island, a beach resort. 
D. G. Hall (August 15 and July 21): Sand flies, said to be 
bloodsuckers of man at ni ,.ht, and known to us provisionally as 
C. biruttatus Coq., were recovered in traps at Augusta. They 
were collected in dark culverts of rapidly running streams in 
the city of V/aycross. . This species is ap larentiy of economic 
importance in fresh water areas. Its occurrence is somewhat 
correlated with that of a so-called "sandfly fever." 
CATTLE 
Texas 
Nebraska 
SCREW WORM ( CochlioTia n-cellaria Fab. ) 
F. C. Pisho-^p and associates (August): Many cases of screw 
worms in cattle, sheep, and goats have beer, reported 1 from 
various -points in western Texas. Apparently, the pest is more 
abundant than usual for nidsu — .or. 
SHORT-NOSEE OX LOUSE ( Haenatopir.us curyst.ernus Nitzsch) 
M. H. Swenk (July 15 to August l): Duriri the third wee 1 : in 
July a Lincoln County ranchman reported his cattle bo.bi eavily 
infested with the short nosed cattle louse (H. eurysterr.vs . ) 
