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OX "ARBLE ( Hypo derma li neatum DeVill. ) 
Texas 0, G% Babcock (September 10): Ox warbles are appearing earlier than 
usual. Damage is very slight at the present time. Cattle in general 
show infestations. 
HORSE S 
RED -TAIL BOT-ELY ( Gastrophilus haenorrhoidalis L. ) 
General E. C. Bishopp (September 28): This fly has occurred in about 
the usual abundance this sutimer in old infested territory, where 
it is recorded as one of the most troublesome pests of horses. There 
appears to be a considerable spread of the nose fly in the last 
several years. Circumstantial evidence strongly indicates that it 
is now present in northern Colorado and northern Wyoming* several 
hundred miles southwest of its range in 1913. The simple device 
consisting of a piece of rectangular belting or leather suspended 
beneath the lips, from the bit rings, as recommended by the Bureau 
of Entomology, is coming into general use* 
NOSE BOT-FLY ( Gastrophilus nasal i s L . ) 
E„ C. 3rshopp (September 28): Actively attacking horses in northern 
Colorado, Y/yoming and South Dakota and Minnesota. Extremely heavy 
infestation of eggs on horses in northern Colorado and southern and 
eastern Wyoming. 
HORSE BOT-FLY ( Gastrophilus intestinal is DeCr, ) 
F» C, Bishopp (September 22): Active and heavy infestations of 
e^gs on horses in northern Colorado and southern and eastern 
Wyoming. 
POULTRY 
Maine 
EUROPEAN HE! FLS4 ( Ceratophyllus gallinae Schrank) 
?. R, Lowry (August 25): Eery heavy infestations of what has been 
provisionally identified as this flea have been found in several 
chicken houses in this vicinity (, Eliot, Faine) . 
GOATS 
SUCKING GOAT LOUSE (Linognathus stenopsis Burm. ) 
Texas o. G, Babcock (September 21): Kids untreated last spring are 
suffering severely from the attacks of this louse. 
