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I have already published in these columns * an account of its 

 life history and shall not repeat my observations here. 



No. 449. Chrysobotliris fatalis Har. (Coleopt.) 

 This Btiprestid together with others of the same family, 

 c. g., Stcnwccra feldspathica Whit., Stcraspis amplipenms 

 Fabr., Psiloptcra wcllmani Kerr., etc., deserve place in this 

 list from the fact of the wood boring habits of their larvae; 

 but my notes on these are not yet complete and I include the 

 species because it (with the other three handsome species men- 

 tioned) is a common article of food among the native blacks, 

 who also eat other beetles, notably Zograplms fero.v Har. and 

 the larvae of a species of Canicnta. 



14. 



No. 547. Anthomyia dcsjardcnsii Macq. (Dipt.) 

 I have reported a severe case of intestinal myasis caused by 

 this fly.f Thirty larvae were passed by the patient, some 

 of which were bred out and proved to be the species above 

 mentioned. The fly, first described from the Isle of France, 

 had not previously been convicted of causing myasis in man. 



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 No. 1025. Dacnodes wellmani Burr. (Dermatopt.) 



This giant tropical earwig which has proved to represent a 

 new genus and species was first brought to my attention by 

 the fact that the blacks fear it and scramble out of its way in 

 the same manner that they avoid scorpions, centipedes, etc. 

 They state that the creature "bites" and is very poisonous, giv- 

 ing instances of serious effects from its venom. It is an in- 

 teresting fact that another large earwig (Anisolabus colossca 

 Dohrn) found in New South Wales is feared in the same man- 

 ner by the inhabitants. I have never personally seen any one 

 bitten by D. wellmani, but it is very possible that it may intro- 

 duce septic matter by a bite from its powerful forceps some- 



* Observations on the Bionomics of Auchmeromyia luteola Fabricius, ENTOM. NEWS, 

 Feb., 1906, p. 64. 



t Intestinal Myasis Accompanied by Severe Abdominal Pain, etc., American Journal of 

 the Medical Sciences, May, 1906. 



