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J. P. Kislanko (May 5): Many winged males of the Argentine 
ant were noticed in one colony at Bond on May 5. 
VY. L. Gray (May 17): The Argentine ant is very abundant 
in the vicinity of Natchez. 
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A WASP ( Polistes pailipes L. ) 
M. H. Swenk (May 13): A Sherman County correspondent 
reported that this social wasp built its nests in great 
abundance in his barn and about his house and that the 
insects were a great nuisance, buzzing around like flies 
and occasionally stinging if disturbed. 
A LONG HOHN BEETLE (Cerambycidae) 
J. J. Davis (May 22): A corambycid larva was received 
from Wheatland, May 9, with the information that it had 
issued from a 1-inch wooden bottom of a chair which had 
been in possession of the correspondent for 33 years. 
The wood of the chair bottom was supposed to be mahogany, 
but perhaps was only a hardwood with mahogany finish. 
MITES (Tyroglyphidae) 
J. V.Schaffner, Jr. (May 12): A Massachusetts 
corporation (manufacturers of felt products) sent in 
samples of their product that is used for visors of caps. 
They had noticed that some of the material was streaked 
and spotted, and had their chemist make an investigation. 
He found numerous small creatures crawling on the samples 
examined. It developed that, as this material is cut in- 
large sheets and stacked in piles, perhaps 5 feet high, 
before it is entirely dry, it made conditions suitable 
for mites to breed. On arrival here the samples were dry 
and all specimens were dead. 
A MITE ( Haemogamasus sp. ) 
.7. Moora (May 12): A pest which is causing us trouble 
is a mite which Dr. Ewing determined as a species of 
Haemogamasus, This mite originally came to us in a bag of 
rabbit fur infested with clothes moths. 7<e again observed 
it in a rug, infested with clothes moths, obtained in 
Yonkers, the same rug previously mentioned containing 
parasitized clothes moths. I have no positive proof as yet, 
but feel very confident that this mite is attacking the eggs 
and larvae of the webbing clothes motht This is rather in- 
teresting, as the species of this genus are considered 
parasites of moles and field mice. 
* Tineola biselliella Hum, 
