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SC?JE\7 '.7QRM ( Cochliomyia macellaria Fab,) 
Texas F-, C. Bishopp (September 27): tfeekly trapping records at a 
local packing house (Dallas) show an increase of 12 per cent of 
. C. macallari e from September 1 to September 2U nnd an increase 
of nearly 50 per cent in volume during the same period. Other 
common species of flies have also greatly increased in volume 
"but the percentage of each species relative to the total catch 
has changed very little during this came period, 
DOGS 
DOG- TICK (Dermacentor variabilis Say) 
Nebraska . M, H« S^-enk (September lo): A veterinarian in Douglas County 
reported during latter August that the dogs in his kennels were 
all badly infested with ticks. Dermac enter variabilis , 
INSECTS I NEE S. TING HOUSE'S -AND PREMISES 
ARGENTINE aNT ( iridomyrmex huroilis Mayr ) 
Mississippi SL R. Smith (September 21 ): Recent surveys conducted at Oxford, 
Greenwood, Belzoni, and Shaw show that the Argentine ants are 
more scarce this year than in a number of years. In most of these 
towns the line of infestation has receded, the native ants thus 
displacing the Argentine ant. Av Oxford a new infestation of the 
Argentine ant has apparently arisen from the habit the town authori- 
ties have of dumping refuse in empty gullies near the edge of town. 
This practice should be discontinued wherever it is in vogue, else 
the Argentine ants will be scattered over a much larger area than 
they now occupy, 
AN A*1T .( Tauinoma sessile Say) 
Mississippi M. R, Smith (September 21) : An ant, T aoinoma sessile Say, is 
causing much trouble in several houses at Greenwood. It has also 
been reported from £uka. 
SMALL SUGAR ANT ( Prenoleni s sp, ) 
Mississippi M, R # Smith (September 21): An ant, known locally as the small 
sugar ant, a species of Prenol e-ois (Nylanderia), was observed in 
several houses recently in Greenwood,. In one of these houses the 
ants were so troublesome that the housekeeper had resorted to 
placing the- legs of the tables in cans of water, 
TIF/ BLACK ANT ( Monomorium minimum Buckley) 
Mississippi M, R, Smith (September 21): The tiny black ant is very prevalent 
in many homes in the Delta section of Mississippi. The .ants have 
been observed to be unusually abundant at Greenwood and at Belzoni, 
