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the beginning of the dog-fly season. It is absolute torture to stay in 
the open if you are at all quiet during this period. Fishermen many miles 
from shore have difficulty in staying out during a land "breeze. Bathers are 
.particularly attractive, the pest preferring to feed on a wet skin, and one 
must keep all of one's body immersed continuously or he "bitten by these 
voracious pests." 
Iowa. 77. C-. Bruce (October 30): Hies are still annoying stock at Ames. 
A BUFFALO GNAT ( Simulium venustum Say) 
Minnesota. A. G. Buggies (October 23): S. venustum is very abundant on moose in 
Lake County. 
HORSE 
HORSE 30TLFI2S ( Sastrophilus spp.) 
Florida. ?. D. Sanders (September): Eggs were observed in considerable numbers 
on the legs, chins, and flanks of the cavalry horses on the University Farm, 
Gainesville , 
Iowa. E. F. Knipling- (October 30): Flies of G. intestinalis DeG. and G. nasal is 
L. were emerging from soil, out of doors, October 30 at Ames, previous to 
October 28 the last observation of the activity of the flies was on October 4. 
Four thousand eggs of G. intestinalis , from 17 head of horses, yielded a.n 
average viability of 48.18 percent. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (October 23): Botfly eggs on the legs were fairly abundant 
on a few horses examined at Hyde Park. 
BUFFALO GNATS (Simuliidae) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (October 23): Simuliidae are generally present in the cars 
of horses in northern Utah at this time. 
A HORSE FLY ( Tab anus costalis Fab.) 
Georgia. U. F. Dove and D. G. Hail (September 29): The horse fly T. costalis , 
in a second emergence this season, has become a severe pest cf man and animals 
in the vicinity of salt marshes. The species normally occurs during the 
months of May and June. 
HOUSEHOLD A II D STORED-PRODUCTS 
INSECTS 
TERMITES (Isoptera) 
United States. T. E. Snyder (October): Daring the month 211 cases of termite 
damage were reported as follows: New England 7; Middle Atlantic 82; South 
Atlantic 26; ' Fast Central 30; North Central 3; '.Test Central 19; Lower 
Mississippi 12; Southwest 13; and Pacific Coast 11. 
