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suffered severe pain and had to ?e operated on for relief. . These 
caterpillars -..'ere feeding on pea: and cherry foDiafe red those 
vfoo T/ere stung -.vers picking' fruit, Mr. R. h\ Pan. county agent, 
For sy til County, sent in specimens and first reported the activities 
of the pest. 
HCRi" FLY ( Piemato bo a irritans L. ) 
- • G - Bishopp (October 23): jir. D. 0. Parraan reports as f ollo-s: 
"The horn fly ?yas rarely noticeable at Uvalde audring the sunbojr, 
and there - cre . general ly less than -100 on on;; animal ^October 1-10. 
fit Brackettville the same conditions prevailed. At del ?_io there 
Tears a ie-7 more flies; some cattle had as many as 5001 Cn October 
18 and 1$ flies -ere noticeable on all cattle and some had as i.an- 
as ^,000 to 2,500 at Substation and Sonpra. <ibout the same con- 
ditions prevailed at Or on'., csnd Sheffield on October 20 and 21 as at 
Sonora. There were more ilics at Tort Stockton, some cattle havirg 
as many as 3,000 to 3,5.00. ~t UpiEO ana ifcrfa on October 21 and 
22' flies -vere annoying all animals to a rreat extent and some cattl 
had error mu of the flies 5>000 to 10,0<X. The horns of all cattle 
are discolored at the "base oy excrement i)i flies and some cattle 
appear to have a pint of flies settled on the horns and aboiit the 
head: . " 
A2T OS 7ARBLS ' Kypoderaa lineatnai LeVill 
F. 0. Bishopp (October): D. Overman err- tihed cattle in a number 
of different localities in sc-uthr© stern Sexus shoydn--; that there 
is si .great variation in the seasonal development of the fcrups in 
the animals, vjhile at u valdo many gribs vcre in the fifth instar dry 
some had Lirtured and left the hosts. Iho following conditions i 7Cre 
noted at pointer* stward: ..iarfa, October 22, an oxa-dn,tion of 
52 mature dairy cattle showed an average of 1.7 grjfbs ocr head v;h?c 
had appeared in the sabderawl tissues cf the back to cb.te. ■••iarimum 
number in one animal -as 17. All grube in third and fourth instars 
Del Rio, October 11-13, lit'. Parman examined 199 dairy cattle and 
fcu^d that no grubs had apperred along t v e backs. Fort Stockton, 
October, 20, 20 cattle v;er e exuoinod, but no grubs -;re rrepe.it 
along the backs. 
BllJ.;«« DCS TICK ("hi: .' ig: ehi. ius rr :~uir. ^j-; Lath . ) 
F. 0. Bishopp (October 25): Specimens of the brown dog tick sent 
in from Chestnut Hill vdth a report that they T/ere on Iops end 
around houses. This is the. first rcecrl of taking Shis tick in 
