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Massachusetts 
25, and Jamestown April 24. Other species of chicken lice were 
comparatively few. 
A HSU FLEA ( Teratophylus sp , ) 
F. C. Bishopp (April 16): An infestation of a henhouse and poultry 
runs at Dorchester "by the eastern hen flea has been reported. The 
fleas are said to "be very annoying to people who enter the poultry 
house . 
Kansas 
Mississippi 
HOUSEHOLD AMD STCRED-PRODUCT 
IISEC'IS 
TERMITES ( Raticulitermes sp . ) 
J. W. McColloch (March 2): Termites have ruined stationery and 
supplies in the City Clerk's office at Wellington. (April 10): 
Woodwork in two sorority houses at Manhattan has been seriously in- 
jured. Damage to woodwork in houses is also reported in Atchisor... 
St. George, Wichita, Meade, and Worth Topeka. The g>iana.3tTjr.. CIo.oc 
in the public school at Chetopa has been undermined. Injury to 
trees, especially cherries, by termites has been reported frcm 
Bucklin, Murich, Florence, LaCrosse, and Meade. 
K. L. Cockerham (May 1): Reticulitermes virginicus Banks continues 
to damage buildings in Biloxi. Reports come in nearly every day 
concerning these insects. 
A TERMITE (Kalotermes piceatus Shy. ) 
Hawaiian 
Islands 
Nebraska 
Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, Mo. 167, March, 1928. 
Dr. T. E. Snyder reports that interceptions of the dry-wood termite, 
Kalotermes ( Cryptotermes ) piceatus Sny., in 192? at the port of 
Honolulu, Hawaii] probably establish Chin, as its original habitat, 
termites of this species having been discovered in household arti- 
cles of Chinese passengers from China. This termite has been known 
to occur in the Hawaiian Islands only since 1904. It is found at 
Honolulu (on Oahu) and at Hilo (on Hawaii). 
CLOVER MITE ( Bryobia praetiosa Koch) 
M. H. Swenk (January 1 to April 15); Shortly before the house- 
keepers were relieved of the boxelder-bug invasion in their houses 
during February and March, the clover mite became very annoying 
in houses. Many complaints were' received about these mites from 
all parts of this State from March 20 to April 15. 
