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LOG TICH ( Demac ente r venustus Bks. ) 
Maryland. Washington Herald (August 19): Following the discovery of two cases 
in the District, 13 cases of Rocky fountain spotted fever have "been reported 
in Maryland, Dr. Robert E. Riley, chief of the State department of health, 
announced last night. Fourteen cases of typhus fever also have been reported 
in Maryland. Four cases of spotted fever also have been reported in Anne 
Arundel County, two each in Montgomery and Dorchester Counties, while single 
cases have been discovered in Prince Georges, Baltimore, Worcester, Harford, 
and Allegany Counties. Most of the typhus cases reported are on the Astern 
Shore. 
DEER FLIES ( Chr-'SQ-ps spp. ) 
Oregon. H. H. Stage (August 3): Deer flies are unusuallj' - abundant about Summer 
Lake this season and two cases of tularemia have been reported. 
A BLOOD- SUCKIITG COiTEUOSE (Tr iator.a ->r.:>tracta Uhl.) 
ITcvada. G. G. Schweis (August 17): The vestc , ni blood- sucking concnoso is 
reported as biting residents in southern Jjcvada and causing severe illness. 
FLEAS (C tenoceohalid cs spp. ) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (August): Complaints about infestations of fleas in homes 
and farm buildings have been much more abundant than in the average 3 r ear. In 
the city of Columbus several homes have required fumigation because of the 
insects. •. <' . . 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (August 23): An unusually large number of complaint 
about dog and cat fleas were received, during the past month. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (July 20 to August 25): Complaints of the infestation of 
houses with fleas (C. felis Bouchc) which were abundantly received during 
July, continued to be received less abundantly from eastern NobraslGR counties 
during the period here covered. 
HOUSE FLY ( Musca domestica L. ) 
ITorth and South Dakota. W-. G. Bruce (August).': House flics are generally roporte 
in unprecedented numbers over the greater part of North and South Dakota. 
(Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
MOSQUITOES (Culicinae) 
South Atlantic Coast. W. E. Dove (Jwly 25): Daring the early part of the month 
salt-marsh mosquitoes ( Aedes sollicit -u:s Walk.) appeared in Charleston but we 
