CYCLORRHAPHA 



El'ROBOSCIKKA 



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Nycteribiidae 



Fig. 12 1. Nycteribia {Listropodia) pedicularia 

 Latr. var. M?.f//(Kolenati) Scott. ? 2'2 mm. ventral 

 view. From Vespcrtilio dcii/beii/piii, Henley-on- 

 Thames. I4ii. igo6. From micro-slide, Rothschild 

 collection, Tring. (By permission.) 



Fiji 



Nycteribia {Stylidia) biarticitlata Hermann. 



mm. dorsal view. From 



Rhiiiolopluis fi-rruiii cqitimim. 12 v. 1912. From micro-slide, Rothschild collection, Tring. 

 (By permission.) 



In Parasitology (University Press, Cambridge), vol. IX. no. 4, July 27, 1917, will be found 

 an interesting grcneral account of the Alyttcribiidac\ with description of two new genera 

 by Dr Hugh Scott. And in T/ic National Review of Aug. 1919, another account by 

 Mr H. Russell in a paper entitled "Wingless Flies" is of interest to students. 

 I am indebted (o Dr Scott for the names of the three British Nycteribiidae illustrated in 

 these pages; and to Mr Harold Russell for his trouble to secure the loan o( Nycteribiidae 

 for my illustrations. It should be here stated that blasii ?ind pedicularia are "not absolutely 

 identical," but Dr Scott considers the difference insufficient to entitle the former to specific 

 rank, but rather that they should be looked upon as two forms of the same species. 

 Nycteribiidae of different genera and species have been found not onl)- on the same bat 

 species, but upon the same bat individual (Scott). 



