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GRIENBOTTLE FLIES ( Luc ilia spp.) 
Georgia. A. L. Brody (March 29): Five infestations of larvae of Luc ilia 
spp. were found in artificially wounded animals at the experimental 
farn near Valdosta. The county agent in Lowndes County reported in- 
festations of maggots in a hog at Hahira the niddle of March and in 
another near Valdosta. 
CATTLE BITING- LOUSE ( Bovicola bovis L. ) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (March 21): Biting lice of cattle have "been 
rather commonly reported from herds in various parts of the State. 
Iowa- R. W. Wells (March 29): Cattle in the central part of Iowa were 
exceptionally free from cattle lice during the past winter, as 
judged from the results of visits to ah out 50 farms. Only a few 
light infestations were found, even on farms that had heavier in- 
festationiSduring the previous year. 
LONG-NOSED CATTLE LOUSE ( Linognathu s vituli L. ) 
Iowa. R. W. Wells (March 29): Cattle in the central part of the State 
were exceptionally free from lice hut, of the "bloodsucking lice 
found, L. vituli was the most common. 
GULF COAST TICK (Anbl yomma maculatum Koch) 
Georgia. A. L. Brody (March 25): A few nymphs were found on meadow 
larks caught in a field. Four males of this species remained at- 
tached to sheep throughout the winter until March 10. A week later 
only one of these males was still attached. 
HORSE 
BUFFALO GNATS (Eus inuliu m spp.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 2^): F. A. Smith states that buffalo gnats 
were observed in the western part of rate Jounty about January 20, 
and II. L. Douglass reports that a few :>f '■:'•■ se gnats were observed 
last week in the western part of Grenada County. 
C. C. Smith (March 12): Buffalo greats l'S. pjo^rum Riloy) 
are beginning to give considerable rro^ble e'\ rig i-ht Tallahatchie,. 
Coldwater, a.id YaloDusha £3 vers in Leflcr.a Grenada, Tallahatchie, 
Quitman, and Tunica Counties. The situation is not as serious as 
it was in 1933. "but many people are beginning to use smudges and 
gnat oil. 
