Culex s oil ici tans, Not only the residence districts "but the 
business section is invaded and the mosquitoes "bite day and 
night. 
BLOOD-SUCKING COUENOSE ( Triatoma sanguisuga Lee. ) 
Mississippi R, W, Ham ed (June 22): Several specimens of this "bedbug were 
received from a correspondent at Woodland, who wrote: "They 
were found in our house last year and have appeared again this 
year. I have found them mostly on the "beds and they sting or 
bite the children at night. Last year I found about two dozen 
of them, finding from one to three at a time. This year we 
have found three, one of them in a neighbors house," 
DOG PLEA. AND CAT PLEA ( CtenoceT>halus c anis Bouche and 
£»• felis Bouche) 
Nebraska M, H, Swenk (May 25-June 25): More than the usual number of 
infestations of houses with fleas were reported during June. 
Missouri L, Baseman (June 25): Complaints continue to come in regarding 
fleas infesting livestock farms in particular, 
AMERICAN DOC- TICK ( Dermacentor variabilis Say) 
Ohio EjF C Bishopp (April and May)? During April and May this ; tick 
was fairly abundant in brushy pastures in the region around 
paiurabus, 
Wisconsin P. C, Bishopp (April): This tick was reported to be present 
in great abundance in the vicinity of Pifield during April, It 
was causing blood loss and "worry" to livestock and attacking 
man, 
Nebraska 11, H, Swenk (May 1-25): A Kearney County woman complained of 
getting infestation by the American dog tick while pulling weeds 
in her flower garden on May 5, 
HORSES 
Missouri 
Texas 
Ohio 
HORSE PLIES ( Tabanus spp, ) 
L. Haseman (June 25): Recently over portions of central Missouri 
an unusual epidemic of two species of horse flies has occurred, 
CANYON HORSE PLY ( Tabanus rubescens Bell,) 
I* W« Laake (June): The canyon horse fly has increased considerably 
during this month in the Dry Fri& Sanyon, As many as 25 flies 
have been observed on one animal during the last few days, 
CATTLE 
HORN PLY ( Haematobia irritans L„) 
P, C, Bishopp (May 27): The number of horn flies has increased 
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