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ous inflammation wherever they touched the flesh. Mr. Mitchell, 

 of Victoria, Tex., told him of a case which came under his ob 

 servation. A man discovered a centipede crawling over his back 

 beneath his shirt. He endeavored to capture and remove it but 

 had some trouble in doing so. When the man's back was ex 

 amined a streak, which afterwards turned blue, was found where 

 the creature had crawled. The man was sick for some time but 

 finally recovered. Mr. Schwarz said that if this had been 

 reported to him by anyone not a reliable observer he would not 

 have believed it. He thought that the injury was inflicted after 

 the centipede had been irritated by the man's effort to capture it. 

 Dr. Howard said that the only poison glands known in the cen 

 tipede were situated at the base of the maxillipeds. 

 Mr. Marlatt then read the following paper : 



COLLECTING NOTES ON MOSQUITOES IN ORIENTAL 

 COUNTRIES. 



By C. L. MARLATT. 



In the progress of a trip made by the writer from San Fran 

 cisco to Honolulu, Japan, China, Java. Ceylon, Egypt, and 

 home again via France, special effort was made to collect the 

 mosquitoes which were in evidence in hotels and inns stopped at 

 The trip covered over a year (i9Oi-'o2), six months of which 

 were spent in Japan, and shorter times in the other places enu 

 merated. The main object of the trip being the collection and 

 study of insects of other kinds, no special effort was made to col 

 lect mosquitoes in the open nor otherwise than as stated. The 

 notes, therefore, are practically an account of the different kinds 

 of mosquitoes which were found in the cities and towns visited, 

 and notably those liable to attack travelers and guests at the dif 

 ferent hotels and inns. An examination of the records indicates 

 that the house mosquito in greatest abundance and most wide 

 spread is the Culex pipiens Linne. This mosquito occurred 

 practically everywhere, and was the species which was most in 

 evidence in point of numbers. It certainly deserves the title of 

 being the world mosquito as an indoor pest. Species of Ano 

 pheles were not very often met with, and, on the other hand, 

 were several times found in places where they would not have 

 been expected, or, in other words, where malaria is practically 

 unknown. The writer was bitten frequently by all the species 

 of mosquitoes collected, and many of those collected were taken 

 in the morning charged with blood. No results of any very seri 

 ous consequences followed any of the bites of mosquitoes, Ano- 



