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PUSS CATERPILLAR ( Megalopyge opercularis S. &. A. ) 
Louisiana. T, E. Snyder (July 9): Noted in New Orleans on roses and choke- 
cherry, and injuring humans. 
EAR TICK ( Ornithodoros megnini Luges) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (July 21): .The spinosc ear tick has •teen reported 
at one residence in Knoxville, . owing to a "badly infosted dog. The ticks 
are occurring in the cracks of the walls and in and around the loose 
joints of shelving in cabinets. 
CATTLE 
SCREWWORM ( Cochliomyia americana C. &. P.) 
South md Southeast. W. E. Dove (July 30): ^or the U-week period ended July 
l6, various counties in Georgia reported 327 cases as follows! Appling 
2, Atkinson 1, Bacon 1, Brantley 3» Bulloch 5* Camden U, Charlton Uo, 
Chatham 2, Clinch 9, Coffee 3, Echols 2, Effingham 10, Glynn 6, Jeff 
Davis 2, Long 5^» Lowndes 2, Mcintosh 66, Mitchell 6, Pierce 2, Screven 
2, Tattnall 2, Thomas 13, Ware 56, and Wayne 3H. Almost half of all 
infestations continue to occur in the navels of late co-lves. In "Florida 
for the U-week period ended July l6, supervisors reported 2,669 infesta- 
tions among 26U,925 animals. In Louisiana specimens were identified 
from Leesville and reports of a few cases were received from Beauregard 
and Vernon Parishes. 
Kansas, W. E. Dove (July JO): In Kansas a few eas.es were reported from Osage, 
Chase, Pottawatomie, and Chautauqua Counties. 
Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (July 22): Scrowworms are showing up in large numbers. 
Jefferson County reports them. as bad as, in 1935» Two calves have been 
iost:jn Stephens County.. ■; Osage County reports serious outbreak. One case 
is also reported from Garfield County. 
Texas. W. E. Dove (July 30) : Stockmen in 73 counties reported on question- 
naires for the month ended July 15 that 11,058 infestations occurred 
among 290,582 animals.. In the principal .sheep-- arid goat-breeding area 
reports from 26 counties gave 3,57^ infestations among 152,800 animals. 
In the lower counties of the State 1,623 cases were reported among 
25,00U animals. Supervisors reported U,325 cases among 792,293 animals 
for the '4-week period ended July 16. Supervisors reconnoitered -in 1-8 of 
these southern counties during the week ended July 23 o.nd reported 2,U^-0 
infestations among 393»908 animals. Some counties in the Panhandle show 
tendencies toward localized outbreaks and a few cases are reported from 
counties in eastorn Texas. 
D. C. Parman (July 28): Catches from traps in the lower Rio Grande 
Valley from Catarina to Hebbronville and south, indicate C. americana 
present in about the sane numbers as during the winter months. Prom 
this area north to Edwards escarpment adults built up until the first of 
