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? Taylor (F. H.). Contributions to a Knowledge of Australian 

 Culicidae, no. ii. — Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Sydney, 

 xl, no. 1. 28th April 1915, pp. 176-184, 2 plates. [Received 

 12th April 1916.] 



This is a description of the new and little known mosquitos already 

 noticed in a previous report [see this Review, Ser. B, iv, p. 10]. 



Taylor (F. H.). Australian Tabanidae, no. i. — Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, xl. no. 4, September to November 1915, pp. 806-815. 

 [Received 18th April 1916.] 



The following new species of the genus Silvius, subfamily 

 Pajstgoniinae, are described : — S. hilli, S. sordidus, S. borealis, S. fuli- 

 ginosus, S. trypherus, S. elongatulus and S. tabaniformis, from the 

 Northern Territory, and S. fulvohirtus, from Queensland. An 

 additional record is given of S. alcocki. Summers, from Darwin, 

 Northern Territory. 



HowLETT (F. M.). Report ol the Imperial Pathological Entomologist. 

 — Kept. Agric. Research Institute, Pusa, 1914-15, Calcutta, 1916, 

 pp. 74-77'. [Received 17th April 1916.] 



Observations were made on the life-histories of insects which breed 

 in decaying or septic animal matter. Against lice on sheep and 

 goats, a lime-sulphur spray or wash, followed by a spray of v/eak 

 vinegar, gave very beneficial results. Lice on man were affected to a 

 marked degree by extremely small quantities of mercury compounds. 

 Preliminary observations were made on the biting-reflex in the bed- \J 

 bug. Ornithodorus savignyi, a possible disease-carrying tick, was ^ 

 studied. The life-histories of Taeniorhynchus sp. and Culex gelidus 

 were determined, both species being troublesome to cattle, the latter 

 frequently breeding in cattle urine. A survey of the breeding-places 

 of mosquitos in Pusa was carried out during March. In order to 

 determine the influence of local waters on breeding, experiments were 

 made on the effect of equimolecular salt solutions on the larvae. The 

 results showed that a high percentage of lime was beneficial to some 

 species. The life-histories of three species of Tabanidae and the 

 /' Diopsid fly, Sphyracephala hearseyana, were worked out. 



Ross (W. A.). Popular and Practical Entomology — Eradication of the 

 Bedbug by Superheating. — Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., 

 xlviii, no. 3, March 1916, pp. 74-76. 



When a building in Ontario, which was badly infested with Cimex 

 lectularius (bed-bug), was submitted to a maximum temperature of 

 160° F. for 10 hours, all the stages w^ere found to be destroyed. 



Atkinson (E. L.). The Fly Pest in Gallipoli.— JZ. R. Naval Med. 

 Service, London, ii, no. 2, April 1916, pp. 147-152. 



In the attempt to control the fly pest in Gallipoli, efforts were made 

 to prevent breeding in dead bodies and in manure. During dry weather 

 the latter was burned in heaps and by the aid of field incinerators built 



