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INSECTS ATTACK'IB MAN AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
. MAN • • 
BEDBUG (Cimex lectularius L. ) t 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (March): Reported as general in North Carolina. 
TROPICAL RAT MITE ( Liponyssus bacoti Hirst) 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (March): Reported in Wake and Robeson Counties. 
G, B. Lay (March 24): Specimens of the tropical rat mite were 
collected in a house at Raleigh oh February. 12. This collection was made 
. following ah investigation of the occurrence of three cases of endemic 
typhus in Raleigh. ...■..-. ' "... ..'.■• 
SANDFLIES' ( Culicoides spp. ) 
Georgia. J. B. Hull (March 24).! Notwithstanding the unusually warm weather 
.-. •. during the middle of February, no sandflies have -been observed biting 
in the vicinity of Savannah. 
Florida. S. E. Shields (February 22): Sandflies have been present in annoy- 
ing numbers on the island east of Fort Pierce, on the eastern coast. A 
few complaints have been received from the mainland. 
» :': ■- "■_.' BLACK WIDOW SPIDER ( Lat rode ctus mac tans F. ) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (March . 1R) : -Found in a basement in Salisbury, on the 
Eastern Shore. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (March 26): A female black widow spider was found at 
■ - Lexington on March 22. . • . 
' '• CATTLE 
SCREWWORM (Cochl iomyia am erican a C. & P. ) 
United 'States. W. E. Dove (April 1): At the end of, March screwworms were 
confined principally to the overwintering areas of Florida and southern 
Georgia and to. that portion of Texas south of U. S. Highway 90, which 
runs from Orange County, on the east to Del Rio, Val> Verde County, on 
the west. In Florida the low point of the winter was experienced dur- 
ing the last week of December, when 194 cases were reported from the 
entire State. Since then summer temperatures permitted the pest to 
build up' in dry swamps where wild hogs were infested and. when cases 
occurred in navels of young animals in other areas. In Florida the 
number of cases reported for December was 1,663? for January, 3 » 213 > 
for February, 3.573; and from March 1 to 26, 2,930* Cases are now 
most numerous in navels of young calves and the infestations are rather 
generally distributed over the peninsular portion of the State, with a 
