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or three "blocks. Considerable damage was done to silk, rayon* and woolen 
clothing. Housewives reoorted that it v&s not unusual to sweep up as 
iruch as a cuart of crickets per day within a house. 
A DEES ELY ( Chrysons di seal is Will. ) 
Utah. E. C. Gushing (October 24): George Bagley, National Park Service, 
Washington, D. C. , states that reports reaching him frorr a C. C. C. camp 
at Corinne, Utah (Locomotive Springs), indicate that 33 cases of tularem- 
ia have resulted frorr the bites of this species. There ^ere no fatal 
cases. 
BLACK WIDOW SPIDER ( Latrodectus rractans Eab. ) 
Illinois. W. J. Snicer (October 4): There has been a slight infestation of 
black widow spiders near Pittsfield this surrrrer. One ,-, OTan ^as bitten 
and another killed, according to reports. Pipe-line workers in this 
area reported seeing about 50 of these sniders when laying pipe from 
Springfield, 111., to the Mississippi River, according to a local drug- 
gist, who has one of the snider s on exhibition in his ^-indo^. The school 
principal at Barry had 4 of these sniders brought in to him. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (October 24): Tie black widow snider continues to be 
an object of rruch concern in the State. They are abundant and widely 
distributed. Many specimens have been received from all sections of the 
State. 
Tennessee. 0. M. Bent ley (October): The black ^idow sniders continue to be 
very comrron in all parts of the State. Ma.ny persons have been bitten and 
hospital attention has been necessary. No fatalities, however, have been 
reported. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (October 22): On October 8 Ross Cook, county agri- 
cultural adjustment agent at Port Yates reported the black wido^ spider as 
being in the basements of houses. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (October 14): Several black "i do w spiders, collected 
in baseirents at Logan, have been brought into the Station laboratory this 
summer. Reports relative to its occurrence in basements and barns have 
been received from various sections of Utah. 
California. A. E. Holland (September 21): Eighty-three black widow spiders 
(both sexes) were killed in the play yard of a private nursery school at 
Alhambra. 
PAJAROSLLO (prnithodoros coriaceps Koch) 
California. 0. G. Babcock (October 24): These ticks were reported to be 
present all summer frorr Monterey to Hueneira, 
