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.. BLACK HOHSE FLY (Tabanus at rat-as Jab.) 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (June ): Tj_ atratus is more 'abundant than usual* 
POULTRY ■ • 
A BLACK FLY (. Simulium Occident ale Towns.) 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (June l): Black flies are very abundant in Plymouth County, 
especially in the vicinity of Akron, where many farmers lost chickens frem 
attacks by black flies. Some farmers report as high as 100 small chicks 
dead from bites of black flies. ' Many old chickens also are killed. Heavy 
emergence during last two. weeks of May.- Flies breeding in Big Sioux River 
and small stream. 
HOUSEHOLD AND ST0RED-PR0DUCT3 
INSECTS 
TERMITES ( Reticulitermes spp.) 
United States. T. E. Snyder (tW 1 ?): During June 345 cases of termite damage 
were reported to the Bureau of Entomology. The following list gives the 
number of cases from each section: New England, 7; Middle Atlantic, 132; 
South Atlantic, 65; East Central, 55; Vfeefe Central, 26; North Central, 9; 
Lower Mississippi, 44; Pacific Coast, 7. 
ANTS (Formici'dae) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 20): Ants of various kinds were reported from all 
sections of the State. In many cases they were infesting lawns, in some 
cases they were reported as attacking the wood beneath the weather boarding, 
and in some cases, they were infesting trees, 
Tennessee. G-. M. Bent ley (June): Cremastogaster lineolata Say and Mo no mo rium 
pharaonis L. are moderately abundant in houses in eastern Tennessee. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (May' 20 - June 20): Reports of ants working in lawns 
and in houses have been received during the period here covered. 
CARPENTER BSE ( Xylocopa virginica Drury) 
Ohio. J. S, Houser (May 25): Large carpenter bees are causing considerable con- 
sternation in the mind of a householder by boring holes in the exterior of 
a dwelling in the exposed wooden beams. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 22): Two reports have' been received from recumseh 
and Independence of these insects boring in garage- tinbers. 
. '. L LONG-HORN BEETLE ( Sburia quadri.-;eminata Say) t 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 20): Two adult specimens were received from Shelby- 
ville, May 24, with the report that they were found in the floor of a dwel-- 
