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INSECTS ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
Delaware. L. A. Steams (July): Peak flight of Aedes sollicitans Walk, at Lewes, 
Sussex County, from July 10-13 . 
Georgia, A. L. 3rody (July): Culex pipiens L.,, quite annoying in houses at 
V.olcLosta, south-central Georgia, since the middle of June. 
Florida, S. E. Shields. (July lo): Mosquitoes, particularly A. sollicitans and 
A. taeniorhynchus Wied, . quite "bad at Fort Pierce now. Reported norc 
abundant in other places, especially fron Vero Beach and Pain Beach. 
W. 7. King. (July 2 2 ): More or less severe outbreaks of mosquitoes 
during July and late June in nearly all areas along the Atlantic coast, 
as well as in some sections of the Gulf coast. The species principally 
involved has "been the salt-marsh mosquito, A. taeniorhynchus . although 
large numbers of the freshwater "breeder, Psorophora columbiae D. & K, , have 
also appeared in some sections, 
Mississippi, E. E. Rogers (July 19): Considerable numbers of Anopheles quadri- 
maculatus Say and C, pipiens reported at Sylvarena, just south of central 
Mississippi, 
Indiana, J, J. Davis (July 26): Mosquitoes exceptionally abundant throughout the 
State. 
Missouri, L, Haseman (July 23): Two or three species of common mosquitoes very 
abundant and annoying throughout central Missouri, 
EYE GNATS ( Hippelates sp. ) 
Georgia. A. L. Brcdy (July 19) : Extraordinarily abundant during the past month 
at Valdosta, an average of about five per person being noticed indoors in 
screened houses. Average considerably higher outdoors, especially in the 
woods. 
MIDGES ( Chironomus spp.) 
New York, G. H. Bradley (July 13-15) ! A large outbreak of gnats which are breed- 
ing in enormous numbers in semiartif icial lakes and lagoons on the site 
of the New York World Fair. So abundant and troublesome as to cause a 
serious menace to the success of the Fair unless controlled. 
