SlAPlIFl: ; S:--:x;.-s _alcicrar: L. 
2_arylar.a r.r.i listrict of Columbia. P. 3. Bishopp August 1- : Unusually 
abundant and annoying to nan ana animals in the District of 3olunl 
and nearby L£aryland. People complain of being bitten, horses arc 
vrorried, and in many cases the cars of dogs arc ran froE the _tt :':. 
HORN FLY ( gaeraat pbia irritar.s L. 
3 r La. A. L. Brody (August 20): Not sc numerous as darirr June ana July. 
Plies average about 100 per animal. 
Florida. A. L. Prody (August 2C): Present ir. ir_-.cr.se numbers a: Brooksville 
on August 9- Plies covered some of the animals like a blanket. Many 
animals shewed considerable injury en the underparts of the body. V r 
few horn flies observed ir. Hendry County, 1; ~iles south of _ — kalce. 
H1J ZCASl" :::i ._•-.: I;- --.--.- --.:■-:■-.:-■- Koch 
Georgia. A. 1. Brody (August 2C : As noted at ~.':.c exocrine at al farm ;r 
check animals, in the vicinity of "alaosta, a slight lecrease f jund in 
the number of ticks of this species luring the last aonth. 
Florida. A. 1. Brody (August 2C ) : At least _; percent Df a herd of ;" r 
cattle reported as infested with mild t: heavy infestations. Cattle 
pastured in Hendry jour.ty and examined about 1; miles south of Ira Dkalee. 
Culf coast tick also reported as appearing in Highlands County but not 
do ire great lamagc. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2U): Ticks taken from a son at Kreole, Jackson 
County, southeastern Mississippi, a^d from cows an 1 sheer at Lucedale, 
George County, Just north of Jackson County. 
HOBS! 
-H?.:a: IIPIV laeere-hilus rm.s alms L. 
I "a. R. Ti. Wells (August 23): After a lapse of activity at Ames during 
the last v »eks f July, this pest resumed activity t August IT. 
and by August 19 was r.ore active than during the early part of the 
summer, judging by the number of egar- obtained on egg err-.- exposed on 
horses. 
3P.0TP 100 ~ICH 'Phi picephalus sanguineus Latr.] 
::ainc. F. C. Bishopp [August Zr : Specimen fr ~ Crono, furnishing th 
first record for Maine ana the second for New England. 
