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HEAD LOUSE ( Pedi cuius h umanus humar. u s L . ) 
Maryland. P. D. Sanders (February ll): A nurse in a Baltimore hospital became 
infested with headlice while nursing an infested patient in the hospital. 
The infestatirn was carried into the Nurses' Home where other nurses be- 
came infested. 
HOUSEHOLD AHD S T R -E D - P R D U C T S 
INSECTS 
ANGOUMOIS GRAIN MOTH ( Sit^tro^a cere? lei la 01 i v.) 
'^QT[J1SE-NECEED GRAIN BEETLE ( Cathartus quadricollis Guer.) 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (February 29): The angoumis grain moth caused con- 
siderable damage to corn, especially corn in the cribs, and in cur southern . 
counties this was accompanied by the square-necked grain beetle. 
A SPIDER BEETLE ( ptinus tectus Boield.) 
Washington. M. H. Hatch (February 6): P_._ tectus occurred in numbers nbout bags 
of imported fertilizer and other dried animal .products in a warehouse on the 
Seattle waterfront during October 1932. Not reported before, to my knowledge 
from N. A. (Det.K. G. Blair.) 
HAIRY SPIDER BEETLE ( Ptinus villiger Re it.) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (February 10): This week I received letters from two 
farmers at St. John, reporting the presence of p oest in their stored wheat. 
I have examined samples of the injured wheat °nd the insects and find that 
they are the spider beetle P^ villi cer . 
SOUTHERN COWPEA WEEVIL ( Callosobruchus rr.aeulatus Fab.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (Febru°ry 3l): Samples of stored peas sent in by-State' 
Plant Board inspectors during December and January indicated that Bruchus 
quad rimaculatu s was quite abundant in most localities. 
RICE WEEVIL ( Si tophi lus oryzae L.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 17): The rice weevil was reported in corn at 
Clayton, Elba, and Troy. 
TERMITES ( Reticuliterme s spa.) 
United States. T. E. Snyder (January): During January 69 cases of termite 
damage were reported to the Bureau of Ent amology. The following list gives 
the number of cases reported from uach secticn: Middle Atlantic, 21; South 
Atlantic, 16; Ea.st Central, 13; West Central, 4; North Central, 1; Lower 
Mississippi, 13; .Pacific Coast, 1. 
North Carolina. R. '". Leiby (February 16): Our first report this "spring" of 
their swarming in Raleigh. 
