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INSECTS ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
MAN 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 22): Mosquito abundance continues to "be reported 
from various localities in the State. 
Oregon. H. H. Stage (May 28) : Aedes aldrichi Dyar and Kna"b, and A. vexans 
Meig. emerged in numbers along the Columbia River "beginning May 11. 
SANDFLIES ( Culicoides spp.) 
Georgia. J. B. Hull (June 25): Along the Georgia coast sand flies continued 
to "be numerous around the salt marshes on warm nights when there was 
little "breeze. C. dovei Hall and C. canithorax Hoffm. were found in 
greatest numbers this month, C. dovei constituting about 75 percent and 
C. c anithorax over 2U percent. Only a few C. melleus Coq. have been 
collected. 
AMERICAN DOG TICK ( Dermacentor variabilis Say) 
Massachusetts. F. C. Bishopp and C. Smith (June 20): A single adult was taken 
on a cottontail rabbit, this being the first record of the rabbit as host 
for the adult of this tick. New host records for immature stages of this 
species were the gray rat, the jumping mouse ( Zapus hudsonius ) , and sheep. 
Illinois. C. L. Metcalf (June 2U) • The dog tick (D. variabilis ) seems to 
have been more than usually common in central Illinois this spring. 
A TICK ( Ornithodoros turicata Duges) 
Florida. T. F. MoC-ehoe (June 25): The relapsing-f ever tick was found in the 
loose sand and debris on the floor of two lime sinks in the vicinity of 
O'Brien ••■-.nee County, on May 21. A survey of the area by Homer Hixson 
from Juno 5 to 11 showed about 30 percent of the sinks to be rather 
heavily infested. 
CATTLE . 
HORN FLY ( Haematobia irritans L.) 
Massachusetts. F. C. Bishopp and C. Smith (Juno 19): Horn flies causing some 
annoyance to cattle in the Buzzards Bay district and on Martha's Vineyard. 
The n'omocr of flies per animal ranged from 10 to 250. 
Iowa. R. W. Wells (May 15): Hornflies appeared at Ames about May 15, 
