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CuLiciDAE with those in allied Nematocera, but there can be little 

 doubt that many of them are essentially connected with the phylo- 

 genetic history of the Culicidae, both as a whole and as regards the 

 .sub-groups. A study of the pilotaxy in Anojyheles may therefore prove 

 useful in prosecuting phylogenetic studies of the group. 



Christophers (Major S.R.). The male Genitalia of Anopheles. — Ind. 

 Q Jl. Med. Research, Calcutta, iii, no. 2, October 1915, pp. 371-394, 



^ 6 plates. 



This paper gives descriptions and drawings of the male genitalia 

 of most of the Oriental species of Anopheles. Some general conclusions 

 are drawn from the descriptions and the characters of the genitalia 

 are applied to a classification of the genus. In an appendix, the male 

 genitalia of a large number of other species are described and figured. 



MiTTER (J. L.). The Occurrence of Slygeromyia maciiJosa at Kasauli 

 and its Breeding Place. — Ind. Jl. Med. Research, Calculta, iii, 

 no. 2, October 1915, pp. 395-396, 1 table. 



Larvae and pupae of Stygeromyia maculosa were collected from 

 manure pits at Kasauli, while searching for the breeding places of 

 Hae^natohia sangidsugens. Twenty- nine adults of S. maculosa emerged, 

 together with a large number of Sfonoxys and flies of the genus Musca. 

 A table is given showing the number of flies caught on different dates 

 and times, on mules in the transport lines, where the breeding place of 

 S. maculosa was found. The table demonstrates the comparative 

 rarity of this species and its habit of biting at dusk. 



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Skriabin (K.). HtMBan JumnHKa JiomaflMHaro OBona bt> wenyAt 

 rpana. [A living larva of a bot-fly in the stomach of a rook.] 

 — «cBtCTHMKl»05meCTBeHH0M BeTepilHapiM.» [Messenger of Public 

 Veterinary Medicine, xxvi, 1915, pp. 1119-1121.] (From a biblio- 

 graphical note in Revue Russe d^Entoniologie, Petrograd, xv, 

 no. 3, 28th October 1915, pp. 437-438.) 



The author found in 1908, in Turkestan, in the stomach of a rook 

 {Corvus frugilegus), the living larva of an Oestrid, identified as that of 

 Gastrophilus in^rmis ; the larva was found firmly attached in the 

 crop. The presence of this larva in a bird is considered to have been 

 accidental. G. inerniis was first described by Brauer in 1858 from 

 Austria-Hungary, and the present record extends the area of its 

 distribution considerably. 



AoKnaAii KoMMCcin Bpaneti npM CrapoPi fopoACKOH BonbH^ut B-b 

 Oftecct no Bonpocy o 6opb5t co BiunBocTbH). [Report of a 

 Commission of Surgeons of the Old Municipal Hospital of Odessa 

 on the question of the control of lice.] — « M3BtCTifl BcepoccJM- 

 CHarO Coroaa ropoflOB"b.» [Bulletins of the All-Russian Union of 

 Towns], Moscow, no. 18, October, 1915, pp. 53-58. 



The investigations of the Commission were directed towards Pediculus 

 humanus {vestimenti) and P. capitis, Pthirius pubis being rare in the 



