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eorgia Oliver I. Snapp (June 20): Mosquitoes are unusually abundant in 
middle Georgia this year- The exceedingly rainy May facilitated 
materially the development of this troublesome pest. 
A DEERFLY ( Chrysops carbonarius Walk.) 
New York M. D. Leonard (May 25): This insect is scarce, only one specimen 
having been taken in each place in locations where there should have 
been quite a few had they been at all numerous. 
Maryland J. A. Hyslop (June 22): Chrysops vittatus Wied. is more numerous 
in southern Montgomery County that it has been in the past five years. 
FLEAS (Siphonaptera) 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 15): Reports of fleas in barns and dwellings 
are coming in. The last few years we have had more than the usual 
amount of trouble from fleas. 
HUMAN FLEA ( Pulex irritans L.) 
Ohio T. H. Parks (June 23): This species was received from a correspondent 
who reports the home overrun with them. 
STRAW-ITCH MITE ( Pediculoides ventricosus Newport) 
Virginia L. A. Stearns (June 21): After 1922 wheat hauled from Montgomery 
County, Kd., to Leesburg, Va., for milling had been run through the 
fan, employees complained of serious skin eruptions. The lesions 
were small, thickly placed over the back to the waistline and 
scattered over arms. Medical attendance was necessary. Customers 
at the mill complain of itching and slight eruption. Insect hosts 
of the mite as affecting wheat were rather more common than usual 
in this region in 1922. 
CATTLE 
HOUSEFLIES ( Muse a domes tic a L.) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (June 15): The common housefly is reported to be un- 
usually abundant about dairy barns in various parts of the State. 
New York 
Texas 
SCREWWORM ( Chrysomya macellaria Fab.) 
R. M. Wells (June 19): The earliest appearance this year at Orange 
County of screwworm was reported this date. 
D. C. Parman (June 2l) : Flies are few in number for June. A slight 
increase of "worms" myiasis is noted in livestock. There are fewer 
cases in the plateau region. 
