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Osborn, var. semifascialas, n., from Sciunis dmtglasi albolimbatus ; 

 Fahrenholzia tribidosa, sp. n., from Perognathus californicus ; Ender- 

 leinelhfs kelloggi, sp. n., from S. griseus nigripes E. uncinatus, sp. n. ; 

 from Glaucomys sc^rinus lascivus ; and Hoplopleura hirsuta, sp. n., from 

 Sigmodon hispidus. 



Lahille (F.). Notas sobre los Argasidos chilenos. [Notes on Chilian 

 Argasidae.] — Anales Zool. Aplicada, Santiago de Chile, ii, no. 1, 

 30th April 1915, pp. 5-11, 1 plate. [Received 4th September 

 1916.] 



In 1909 the author obtained specimens of Omifhodoros talaje, Guer. 

 {reticidatus, Gerv.), on horses near Santiago. Argas persicKs also 

 occurs both in Chile and Argentina, and in 1913 the author described 

 a variety of this species, A. persicus var. porteri, from San Bernardo 

 in Chile. _ --.^ ^-.pfcc 



Morales (R.). El Phlebotomus papataci en Guatemala. [Phlehotomm ^ 



^ papatasii in Guatemala.]— .4 wa/es Zool. Aplicada, Santiago de 

 ^ Chile, iii, no. 1, 29th Februarv 1916, pp. 27-29. [Received 

 4th September 1916.] 



The Psychodid, Phlebotomus papatasii, has been found in Guatemala 

 at an altitude of 1,200 feet, though the presence of three-day fever has 

 not yet been reported from there. Chironomus calligraphis, two 

 species of Megarhinus, one of Janthinosoma, one of Stegomyia, one of 

 Sabethes, and several of Culex, also occur. 



Lima (A. da Costa). Contribucao para o estudo da biolojia dos culi- 

 cidas. Observacoes sobre o respiracao nas larvas. [A contribution 

 '^ to the study of the biolog}' of Culicidae. Observations on the 



respiration of the larvae.]— Me?H. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de 

 Janeiro, viii, no. 1, 1916, pp. 44 49, 3 figs. [Received 9th 

 September 1916.] 



In an addendum to a paper on the respiration of Culicidae [see this 

 Review, Ser. B, iii, p. 70] S. K. Sen has criticised the author's experi- 

 ments [see this Review, Ser. B, ii, p. 107]. The several points of 

 criticism are dealt with and Dr. da Costa Lima describes further 

 experiments confirming his earlier results. 



In British Guiana, H. W. B. Moore observed that the larvae of 

 Taeniorhynchus (Mansonia) titillans were in the habit of settling on 

 Pistia stratiotes. It has been recently found that the larvae of this 

 mosquito are unable to live exclusively on air dissolved in water, but 

 that when plants of P. stratiotes were placed in the same submerged 

 tube with them, they remained near the leaves and roots and lived for 

 three or four days. Attention is called to the fact that the branchial 

 leaflets of T. titillans have a reduced tracheal ramification. 



MuTo (A.). Nuovo metodo di sterllizzazione entomo-parassltario. 



[A new method of sterilisation against insect parasites.] — 

 Ann. d'lgiene, Roma, xxvi, no. 8, 31st August 1916, pp. 493-508, 

 5 figs. 



A few notes are given on the biology of lice, which, it is pointed out, 

 are unable to move about on perfectly smooth surfaces. This explains 



