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A CERAM37CID 3EETLE (Mecus inornata Say) 
R. U» Harned (June 22): The ce.rambycid beetle Mecas. 
inornata was found girdling the tops of sunflowers at Natchez 
by W # L. Kray on June 13. 
INSECTS ATTACKING M A N A N D 
D M E S T I C ANIMALS 
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HOUSE FLY ( Musca domes tica L. ) 
fii Haseman (June 25): Though the season is not very far 
advanced the house flies seem more abundant than usual and 
.especially for this season of the year, 
0. C> Babcock (June 22): House flies are more numerous at 
Sonora, San Angelo, and Ozona at this time of the year than 
ever before observed for the past five years. A few cases of 
typhoid fever reported and one death. Source of infection 
not proved definitely. There are no sewage systems in Ozona 
or Sonora. 
CHIGEEES ( Trombicula irritans Riley) 
J. J. Davis (June 24): Reports of chigger abundance have been 
received from southern Indiana. . . 
M, H. Swenk .(May 25- June 25): The first reports of chigger 
attack on man for the season have come from Boyd County on 
June 17. 
L. Haseman (June 25): Throughout central Missouri during the 
middle, of June the first signs of an epidemic of chigger3. 
was observed and complaints are coming into the office from 
various localities. 
0. G. Babcock (June 22): On May 11 the first record of chigger 
attack was obtained from Menard. The chigger s were very few 
in numbers. A later visit on June 21 gave '42 chigger bites on 
the person, a great increase over May 11 of approximately 
90 per cent. 
MOSQUITOES (Culicidae) 
R* W« Harned (June 22): Troy Thompson reports mosquito ©a 
unusually abundant at Waveland, in Hancock County, on the Gulf 
Coast. 
SALT-MARSH MOSQUITO (Aedes sollicitans T7alk. ) 
T. E # Holloway (June 15): E .r the last few days the City of 
New Orleans has been overrun with salt-marsh mosquitoes, 
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