INSECTS ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
MAN 
'MOSQUITOES (Culicinac) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (April 22): Large numbers of larvae of Aedes 
spp. were found in snow-water pools at Salisbury and Leicester, 
Addison County, in western Vermont on April 7 • 1^ some pools where 
no larvae were found on that date, many were found on April 22. 
Florida. 3. V. Travis (April 1): Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say was 
rather abundant at Eorshala plantation during the entire winter, 
"but few have "been observed since March 1, A. crucians Wied. having 
become the more noticeable species since that date. 
J. 3. Hull (April 1): Only a few Aedes s ollicitans ' (Walk. ) 
were found at Fort Pierce in January, February, and March. 
Texas. E. W. Laake (April 25): Mosquitoes have : apparently been very 
scarce during the last month. 
Oregon and Washington. E. H. Stage (April 25)'- The first larvae of A. 
varlpalpus Coq. were fouiai 'an April 12 near Randal],, fash.,, in -an- 
oak stump filled with rain water. The first larvae of A. vexans 
Mg. and A. aldrichi Dyar and Knab were found on April 21 in the 
lower Columbia River Valley, as the Columbia freshet reached 12.0 
feet. The first adults of Culex pipiens L. were seen at Mt. Angel, 
Oreg., on April 19. The first anopheline larvae were found in 
the first instar at Tulatin, Oreg., on April 27. The first larval 
C. tarsalis Coq. was observed .in the Willamette Valley at Tulatin 
on April 27- Third-instar larvae were taken. 
BUFFALO GNATS (Simuliidae) 
New York. R. Matheson (April 23): Prosimulium hirtipes Fries, callod 
the "Adirondack black-fly," during the last few years has made its 
appearance in unusual abundance about Ithaca and is fast becoming 
a pest of first importance about homes, both in the city and 
surrounding country. It is very annoying about cottages on the 
west shore of Cayuga Lake. The first appearance this year was on 
April 23 and it is quite abundant in the region at such an early, 
date. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (April 20): Buffalo gnats, Eusimulium 
clarum D. & S., have been found to be very abundant about Patterson 
and Westley, in the San Joaquin Valley. They were first encountered 
on March lU and again on March 2k. They literally swarm about a 
person and arc very annoying. They do not bite but get into the 
hair and oyes. (Dct. by A. Stone.) 'They were continuing abundant 
up to April 20, being encountered at Modesto, Patterson, Westley, 
