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A STPATIOMYIIB { gSraetla i Hue ens L. ) 
Virginia. G. ?, Trench (June 22): Specimens were collected in toilets in Hanover 
Cormty. The flies are quite annoying. (Dot. C. T. Greene.) 
SADDLE-BACK CATBBPILIAB (STbine stinulea Clen. ) 
Ohio. T, ~l. larks (August 10): Saddle-hack caterpillars have "been brought in 
with the statement that thej 7- were feeding on corn, pear, and holly trees. We 
have received nore of then than usual. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (Ai*.gu.st 23): A correspondent at Moss Point, Jackson 
County, recently sent in larvae collected fron pecan trees. 
BIO 0D- SUCK IPG COITENOSE ( Triator.a san.^ai su,-a Lee.) 
Tennessee. G. K. Bentley (August): The giant bedbug seens to be more numerous 
this year than previously reported. A letter fron Surgoinsville dated Augast 
11 reads as follows; "I an sending an insect that has been biting ne and 
causing chills and high fever. Its habits are similar to the bedbug. It cones 
out at night and feeds, and then hides about; the bed. Then in about five days 
it feeds again. Last sumer I found one on the side of the nattress after it 
had bitten ne. This sumer I have found two. This one I found hiding on the 
railing under the springs after it had bitten ne all over the body. Its bites 
cause much swelling and irritation and fever." 
A TICK ( Derr.iacentor andersoni Stiles) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bent ley (A u-ust): The dog tick D^ andersoni is very abundant in 
the northern counties of western Tennessee and in scattered localities of 
upper and niddle eastern Tennessee. Dogs are literally covered with then. 
People also are pestered considerably, 
CATTLE 
SCPEW WOPM ( Cochlionyia nacellaria Fab. ) 
Georgia. J. ~. Gill (August 22): An outbreak of the screw-worn fly was reported 
about the niddle of this nonth fron Brooks County. 
Florida. J. P. Watson (A ugust 24): Mr. Pred T7. Walker of Monticello reports that 
the screv; worn is very abundant in that vicinity on cattle, hogs, and dogs. 
T. W. Cole, Bureau of Animal Industry, Jacksonville, through P. C. Bishopp 
(August 15): During the past two weeks two centers of screw-wort: infestation 
have been found in Florida by veterinarians on this force in range cattle, one 
in Baker County and the ;ther in Jefferson County. The State Veterinarian ad- 
vises us that this is the first tine, to Ms knowledge, that we have had this 
trouble in the State. 
Georgia end Florida. F. C. Bishopp (August 25): The screw worn, a pest of various 
classes of livestock, is reported as occurring in outbreak nunbers in parts of 
Georgia and Florida. There are no previous records of an outbreak of this pest 
in this region. Heavy losses have already been reported fron Georgia, and the 
occurrence is causing considerable alarm to farriers and stock owners. 
