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WISTARIA 
GIANT SKIPPER ( Epargyreus ti lams L.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (September 25): The wistaria leaf-tier was reported very 
abundant at Hibbard, August 30. 
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DOMESTIC ANIULS 
MAN 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinao) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (September 23): Aedes vexans Meig. and other species are 
unusually abundant at New Canaan. 
New York. F. C. Eishopp (September l): Today a report was received of the 
unusual abundance of salt marsh mosquitoes (A. sollicitans Walk.) in the 
vicinity of Belle Port. The reporter stated that he has been going there for 
many years and that he felt that the mosquitoes were more abundant and trouble- 
some this year than ever before. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (September 27): Mosquitoes have been 
very abundant, especially since the heavy rains of August, and over a hundred 
cases of malaria have been reported in the Norfolk area. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (September 23): Mosquitoes are very abundant in western 
and lower eastern Tennessee. Malaria has been so prevalent that the Memphis 
Health Department has put on an eradication campaign. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (September 23): Mosquitoes have been very abundant at 
Manhattan during the past two weeks. 
Texas. E. W. Laake (August and September): Mosquitoes are very abundant at Dallas. 
Oregon. H. H. Stage ■ (September 16): A. vexans and A. a ldrichi Dyar and Knab are 
no longer pests in the Columbia Valley. A. commun is DuG. and A. f itchi i Felt 
and Young were still ver,> numerous and a great pest in the Cascade Mountains 
west of Bend the last week in August. This date is reported as unusually late. 
Tourists, fishing parties, and CCC Camps have suffered much from these species 
in that section since late in June. 
ITf'Z GNATS ( Htppolates spp.) 
Georgia and Florida. P. D. Sanders (September 20): Eye gnats are extremely 
abundant in southern Georgia, and north-central Florida. They were especially 
annoying at Gainesville, Starke, ana Delrnd, Fla., and Lakeland, Valdosta, 
Nashville, Tifton, Pearson, and Nahunta, Ga. 
