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summer months. C. guttipennis Coo. and C. biguttatus Coo. have "been reared 
from large numbers of the rot holesin trees, and these species are begin- 
ning to occur in nature. Durin~ the spring months, sand flies were found in 
3 to 5 miles from salt marsh^ breeding places. They are abundant about her 
of dairy cattle. 
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EYE GNAT ( Hirvpelates spp. ) 
Georgia. 7. E. Dove and D. G. Hall (April 20): Hundreds of Hippelates were 
caught in a home made t ra p ■ whi ch was located on a high point in a salt 
marsh in Savannah. The trap was baited with fish meal in salt vat or. As 
yet these nests are not annoying to man. 
Texas. D. C. Parman (April 25): Eye gnats are abundant to very abundant in 
some sections* 
CATTLE 
SHOUT-NOSED CATTLE LOUSE ( Kaematopinus eurysternu s Nitz.) 
Nebraska.. M. H. Swenk (March 25 to April 20): Another report of an infestation 
of cattle with the short-nosed sucking louse (K. eurysternus ) was received 
from Custer County during the first week in April. 
CATTLE GRUBS ( H.vpq derma spp.) 
Iowa. R. V. r . TTells (April 24): A few H. bo vis DeG. had dropped by this date. 
»/e estimate the dropping to have begun about April 5. This species is by 
far the more abundant of the two in the northeastern part of Iowa. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (April 21): Of 66 steers examined at Fargo by P. F. 
Trowbridge and F. 7. Christinson, of the State Agricultural College, '.arch 
16, only 37 were free of grubs. The 31 infested averaged nearly 2 grubs 
per animal. 
HORN FLY ( Haematobia irritans L. ) 
Texas. D. C. Parman (April 25): 200 to 2500 per animal. 
DEER 
ECTOPARASITES 
Pennsylvania. Monthly Letter of the Bureau of Entomology, U. 5. D. A., Kb. 225 
(January): Ectoparasites of deer in Pennsylvania. ~ Harold S. Peters, 
Takoma Park, Md. , spent December 5 to 7 studying the ectoparasites of deer 
in south-central Pennsylvania, a, continuation of a cooperative study made 
in the deer-hunting seasons of 1950 and 1331. An nation of 19 deer 
yielded 34 Tricnolipeurus virginianus Peters - t 4 Qervophthirius crassiccrnis 
(Nitzsch), and 28 Dermacc.it or nigrolineatu :-, Packard. Mr. Peters says, "It 
is interesting to note that only one species- of biting louse was found, as 
in other parts of the State two species have been found. No especially 
