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as to greatly reduce their condition and the local FERA workers have in- 
qui ted about the inauguration of control project s« 
Iowa. R. W. Wells (July 28): Cattle and horses in central Iowa have suffered 
severely. Such attacks are especially sericus in cases where livestock 
are already weakened for wait of proper gracing. The pests have also "been 
very abundant and annoying around city dwellings and around swimming pools, 
where the arns and legs of persons were exposed. The outbreak followed 
liberal rains during the first half of July* 
W. G. Brace (Judy 23"; I This pest is as abundant and annoying at Ames 
as I have ever seen it. I caught some 1^,000 flies on two heifers in half 
a day in the cattle fly trap. This pest has also been annoying to golfers 
on the local courses. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (July 23): Abundant on cattle. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (July 15)° The biting stable fly has proved moderately 
severe this summer. The most numerous reports have come from Madison 
County, in the vicinity of Sattle Creek and Tilden, and thence west to 
Eric son in Wheeler County, but the flies have been more or less trouble- 
some over all of eastern Nebraska,, 
GULF COAST TICK (Ambl yomna nacu l atum Koch) 
Mississippi. J. M. Langs ten (July 23): On July lb a correspondent in Perry 
County sent to this office specimens of the Gulf Coast tick, with a report 
that they were causing considerable trouble by infesting the ears of sheep, 
cattle, and hogs, 
HOUSE 
HORSE FLIES (Tabanidae) 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (July lb): The horse fly ( Silvius pollinosus 
Williston) is much more abundant than usual and is causing the cattle in 
the infested urea considerable worry. 
Wtah, G. F, Kr.o-jlton (July 17): Korse flies are annoying livestock in scattered 
localities throughout the State. 
HOUSEHOLD A IT D STORED-PRODUCT 
I IT S E C T S 
TERMITES ( Reticulitermcs spp. ) 
Ohio. IT. F. Howard (July): A hone gardener at Columbus brought in some cabbage 
roots which were tunnelled wif.i termites, probably R. flavipes Kol. for 
identification. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 23): Termites damaged chrysanthemums and geraniums 
in greenhouses at Logansport and La Fayette, respectively. 
