INSECTS INFESTING HOUSES A IT L P R E I.I I S E S 
EUROPEAN EARWIG (Eorficula auricularia L. ) 
Rhode Island A. E. Ster.e (June 20): A few reports on the European earwig have 
come in again from Newport and it is apparently as abundant 
as last year 6 
POWDER POST BEETLE ( Lye tug Tslanicolli s Lee. ) 
Mississippi R. W. Earned (June 22): Lyctus nlgnicollis Lee. was reported on 
June 1 as seriously damaging oak furniture at Rich. Specimens 
were determined "by W„ S. Eisher of the Bureau of Entomology, 
TERMITES 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (May 1-25): Another report of injury to a house 
by the termite Reticulitermes t ibialis was received on May 
18, this tiaes from Hall County. 
Kansas J e W D McColloch (June 21): Serious damage to woodwork in 
buildings has been reported from McPherson, Salina, Lawrence, 
and Manhattan. 
California C. X. Fisher (May 28): The termites are working in three or 
more houses on adjoining lots or those close together at 
Alhambra. In the house where most damage has been done they 
were first observed about a year ago after they had eaten through 
the floor in a closet into a trunk and into a pair of shoes 
which were in the trunk. The closet floor was repaired and the 
termites were not observed again until they had eaten some 
of the floor joints away and were coming through the hardwood 
floor in the living room. This was a week ago* 
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