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idea that the gnats get into the nose and ears of the animals 
and kill them that way, hut I have "been unable to find them 
around these parts to amount to anything. They undoubtedly 
poison the animals and at the same time weaken them "by suck- 
ing the "blood. as hut few if any die after the first few days 
of the outer eak, it looks as though the animals may "become im- 
mune to the poison to a certain extent after they get used to 
it. 
The people are using various concoctions to keep the gnats 
off, either "buying them prepared or making them themselves. .-ill 
use some kind of a mixture of oil and tar. They use various 
stimulant remedies after the mules have gotten down. * was in 
the delta yesterday and the gnats were as thick as they were 
"before the cold spell. I was in Madison Thursday and inquired 
ahout them. They had not noticed any there yet. 
On liarch 28 another correspondent at Webb in Tallahatchie 
County wrote that the buffalo gnats were "getting bad in this 
section. " 
INSECTS INFESTING HOUSES AND 
P B. E M I S E S 
TERMITES 
Kansas J. 77. McColloch (March 21): Reports of injury have been 
received as follows: 
February 21. "oodwork in a dwelling at Clay Center 
has been honeycombed. 
March 3- Severe damage is reported of the wood- 
work in a house and garage at Osborne. 
March 11. Termite injury is reported in a public 
building at Lawrence. 
P077DER-POST BEETLE ( Lyctus spp. ) 
Kansas J. T7. McColloch (March IS): Severe damage to the oak flooring 
in a dwelling is reported at Sal ina. 
HOUSE FLY ( M-a sea domestica L. ) 
Haiti G. N VJolcott (March 11) : House flies are extremely abundant in 
Cayes and have been so every time I have been there. This is 
in contrast with their ordinary rarity elsewhere in the '/"est 
Indies. I do not know "hy house flies should be abundant in 
Cayes, although there is no Question about it, expecially in 
the bar of the International hotel. 
Missouri J. "7. McColloch (March 25): The first adults abserved on wing 
outdoors on liarch 1 to 10 at Columbia. 
