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INSECTS ATTACKING MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
MAN 
MOSQjUITOES (Culicinae) 
New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. G. H. Bradley (June 20): A period of 
high tides and heavy rains during the last few days of May in the 
coastal areas of these States caused considerable "breeding of mos- 
quitoes in the salt marshes. Adult mosquitoes, Aedes cantator (Coq. ) 
and principally A. sollicitans (Walk.), emerged during the first week 
in June and invaded the coastal towns in numbers sufficient to 
cause annoyance. 
Iowa. C. J. Drako (June 25): Very abundant and many complaints being 
received from all parts of the State. Heavy rains have provided an 
abundance of breeding places. . 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 21): Abundant over a wide area. 
Kansas. H. H. Bryson (June 25): Moro abundant than last year. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (June l6): A. dorsalis Mcig. is extremely abundant 
and annoying in tho meadows west and northwest of Ephraim and at 
Farr West, in central Utah. 
CHIGGER ( Trombicula irritans Riley) 
South Carolina. 0. L. Cartwright (June): Causing complaints in many 
parts of tho State. 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlakc (June 20): Reported as abundant in the Pewee 
Valley, in north-central Kentucky, on June 20. 
Kansas. H. R. 3rycon (June 25): Considerably more abundant than last year, 
TROPICAL FOWL MITE ( Liponyssus bursa Berlcse) 
California. D. B. Mackie (June 21): Found in Sacramento on June 17, 
apparently spreading from a sparrow's nest in a vino into a house 
and causing considerable annoyance to tho owners. This is tho 
first record for California. 
CATTLE 
.SflHiUfOEM ( Cochliomyia americana C. & P. ) 
Georgia. A. L. Brody (June IS): A case reported from l|- miles west of 
