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Matheson and Shannon ( May 14) " Adults obtained from larvae and 
pupae found in a email pool along railroad at Ithaca*" 
Culiseta inornatus Wil, 
jw York. Matheson and Shannon ( April 2) " Adults just emerging from hibernation 
at Ithaca." 
Stable fly ( Stomosys calcitrans L, ) 
Office of Southern Field Crop Insect Investigation: Attention must 
be given to the stacking of straw during threshing if the terrible 
outbreak of stable flies of last year is not to be repeated this season, 
Last year's losses are well remembered by the farmers and stockmen of 
Oklahoma, Kansas ~ Nebraska, and parts of the Dakotas. Heavy rains at 
threshing time combined with loose piling of the straw was responsible* 
Plowing wa_s practically abandoned in some sections, amd tractors were 
resorted to in many instance! as the horses could not withstand the 
overwhelming hordes of flies. Cattle suffered heavily, flesh beirjg 
greatly reduced and milk flow cut tv;entyrtfive to fifty per cent, in 
some cases. Death loss was also heavy- animals weakened through blood 
loss and worry fell ready prey to certain diseases and others were 
said to be actually made sic!: by the flies themselves. The field 
men of the Bureau of Entomology state that these blood-sucking flies 
were present in unusual numbers in June, With many old straw stacks 
still in the fields and the usual careless piling of stnaw at 
threshing time and some heavy summer rains these flies will develop 
into veritable hordes late in the summer, 
MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS ATTACKING MAN 
Chrysops niger Macq, 
New York. Matheson and Shannon ( May 6) " Several females taken while attempting 
to attacjj:'man, also several males taken on blossoms of chokecherry 
at Ithaca," 
S imuLlum sp. 
Matheson and Shannon ( May G) " The species pictipes locally 
abundant in woods at Ithaca. " 
Small body hen louse ( Menopon pallidum Nitz.) 
New York, M. D. Leonard ( April 12) " Back of a man at Accord was badly bitten 
by these lice, They hud evidently gotton on him while working in a 
poultry house, as he was employed by a poultryman." 
