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The American dog tick (D. variabilis (Say) ), which transmits 
Rocky Mountain spotted feyer in the East, appears to have "been rather 
less abundant than normal in the mid-Atlantic States. It was more 
abundant than usual, however, on Cape God and oh adjacent islands in 
Massachusetts. In this area the tick is extremely abundant and annoy- 
ing to people, dogs, and horses, though fortunately Rocky Mountain 
spotted fever and tularemia do not appear to exist there. 
The number of cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the last 
this year, as reported to the United States Public Health Service up 
to November 1, was lU2 , distributed as follows: Virginia ^1, 
North Carolina 30. Maryland 28, District of Columbia 7, Tennessee 6, 
Illinois 6, Pennsylvania 5» Delaware 3» Kentucky 3. West Virginia 1, 
Georgia 1, and Alabama 1. The mortality, as usual, ran about 25 
percent. (F. C. 3ishopp, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
U. S. D. A.) 
NSW RECORDS OF INSECTS 
Specimens of the following insects have been identified from 
collections made in the United States. Specimens determined by 
L. L. Buchanan as Gymnaetron ( Ehinusa ) netum Germar, a European 
curculionid not before reported from North America, have been de- 
tected in the National Museum collection, mixed with lots of the 
common G. (R. ) teter Fab., the localities represented including 
points in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
and Iowa. The earliest date is July 3. 1,91^" » on specimens collected 
at Farmingdale, N. Y. A series from Barcroft, Va. , was reared by 
J. C. Bridwell from seed pods of Linaria vulgaris . Two specimens 
of a weevil identified by L. L. Buchanan as Naupactus leucoloma Boh. 
were received from A. N. Tissot, Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Gainesville, Fla. The weevils were reported to bo injuring peanuts 
at Crestview, Fla. This species, which has not heretofore been known 
from North America, was described from Tucuman, Argentina, and has 
been reported also from Chile, Uruguay, and New South Wales. At the 
last-named locality the larvae were found attacking roots of lucerne. 
Specimens of delphacid, collected on sugarcane at Fellsmere, Fla., 
on September 26, by J. W. Ingram and E. K. Bynum, of the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, have been identified by P. W. Oman 
as S accharosydne sac char ivora (Westwood) . This appears to be the 
second record of S. saccharivora , a common West Indian species, occurr- 
ing in the United States, it having baen previously recorded by Van 
Duzee in 1909 from a single specimen collected at Tampa, Fla. Mr. Ingram 
stated that the species was causing rather severe injury to sugarcane 
at Fellsmere and that nymphs were also found ir small numbers on Digi- 
taria sanguinalis , Paspalum urvillei , and Dactyloctenium aegyptium . 
References concerning saccharivora in the lest Indies indicate that, 
although the species is common, it is usually not a severe pest of cane. 
Some of the nymphs included in this sending were parasitized by larvae 
of a dry in id, according to R. A. Cushman. Two specimens of a parasite 
reared from T rachelus tabidu s (F. ) taken at Adansville, Pa., have been 
