evidences of boring larvae of the horse botfly (G. intestinalis De G.) 
A more detailed examination was made on 4 well-infested tongues. Not all 
of the larvae were removed from the tongues but it is established that 
there were 50 to 100 larvae in each tongue, Of 40 extracted, all G. 
intestinalis, 58 were headed posteriorly. As stated by Dinulescu, the 
larvae maintain lateral openings to the surface of tongue as they proceed 
posteriorly, persumably for obtaining air, for the larvae had the spiracles 
outermost near the surface. Larvae of only G. intestinalis were found 
in the tongue, although in the ducdenum were found all sizes of second-stage 
and third-stage throat botfly (G. nasgalis L.), usually in such abundance 
that the organ was considerably congested with them. We have not foundG. 
nasalis’ in the tongues, nor attached anywhere in the buccal region, al- 
though in the same hosts they were abundant inthe ducdenum, not at all in 
the stcmach, We are scmewhat doubtful that G. nasalis burrows in the tongue, 
though their absence may have beenseasonal. Many tongues were almost 
raw with the many intermingled channels of G. intestinalis and the subse- 
quent sloughing of tissue. Wehavea very heavily infested tongue preserved 
in a museum jar for exhibit. It is a very striking exhibition of the early 
work of these tiny larvae." 
STORED PRODUCT INSECTS 
Fig moth found in fallen fruit in orchards.--In September H. C. 
Donohce, Fresno, Calif., continued his observations on the unharvested 
first-crop Mission figs. Perez Simmons reports that "On September 27 
Mr. Donohoe estimated by sampling that the average number of figs was 
95 per tree (2/3 buried, 1/3 on surface), or 4,750 per acre. A sample 
collected on September 20 and examined in detail on September 30 yielded. 
an average of about 2 larvae per fig. About one-half of these larvae were 
small and, since many small larvae which burrow in the flesh of the fruit 
are cverlocked at the first examination, the actual rate of infestation 
cf the semple was prcbably scmewkat higher. One sample, collected August 
16, still contained ¢mall larvae when examined for the third time 25 
days after the collection date." , 
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ants, Rickmcnd, Va., continued their "cooperative trapping experiments 
with a cigarette ccmpany in Rickmcnd. A summary of the biweekly records 
cf these traps, lecated in a Turkish tcbacco warehouse, since August 12" 
gives a total of 5,336,399 adults cf the cigarette beetle (Lasiocerma 
serricorne Fab.) and 13,6¢9 adults cf the tcbacco moth (Ephestia elutella 
Hbn.). In another trapping experiment undertaken in cooperation with a 
tcbacco ccmpany in North Carolina, 2,562,704 cigarette beetles and1,618 
tcbacco mctks were caught in seven suction light traps during the reriod 
September 19 ‘o 26. 
Trap catckes of tobacco pests.-—In September W. D. Reed and assist-= 
