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Vineyard, practically caased during the last 2 weeks of August. The 
latest collection was an engorged female taken from a dog on August 29 
and an unattached male from a man on the same date. v .;■, 
A. E. Stene (September 21): Collected on Cape Cod in an effort to 
determine whether they were carriers of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 
which two people from Providence contracted.- while vacationing on the cape. 
EAR TICK ( Ornithodoros megnini Duges) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September '22'): The spinose ear tick was infesting the 
ear of a horse in Sheridan County on September U, , 
'RABBIT TICK ( Haemaphysalis lcporis-palustris Pack,')" " '", ].. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 22): Specimens were sent from Douglas County 
on September 9» with the report that the tick was. infesting dogs and.had 
also' been found alive' in the house. , ... , ( 
Correction . — In the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin Vol.. 17. September. 1, 1937 » 
(no. 7» P* 37^) , regarding the American dog tick in Connecticut, by P. 
Garman , " the name should read, " Rhipicephalus sanguineus Latr.y . r - 
BLACK YIIDOYI SPIDER ( Latrodectus mac tans F. ) 
Virginia. H. G. 'Walker (September 25): '.Appears to be common in eastern Virginia. 
Specimens have been taken. in, flower gardens, in buildings,- under boards and 
'''■'■ ' ■' • stones, and in melon Jand.' cornfields. . '...-. 
Georgia.' T. L. Bissell. (September 8): Several reports have ; come. in showing an 
abundance of this Spider, Recently a man in Spalding County, central Geor- 
gia, died of a spider bite. On September U a woman at Experiment was bitten. 
A correspondent' at Clarkston reports black widows on the. stairs leading to 
the second floor. I have seldom heard of this spider in Rouses. 
Nebraska. M. H. ' Swenk (September 22): Reports of the presence of black widow 
spiders in such places as caves, house basements, around a schoolhou-se, and 
in drainage culverts, came from several counties during, the period August 
25 to September IS. 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (September 18) r A number of reports of black widow spiders 
found in houses and barns have been received during the season. 
CATTLE 
• SCREWORM ( Cochliomyia americana C . & ' P . ) 
South' Carolina. R, A. Roberts (September 30): Cases estimated in different 
