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Ferris (G. F.). Contributions toward a Monograph of the Sucking 



Lice. Part I. — ■Leland Stanford Junior Univ. Pi'blicatimis, Col., 

 1919, 51 pp., 32 figs. 



This is the first part of a series of papers, which it is hoped will 

 constitute when complete a monograph of the Anoplura. 



Of the genus Enderleinellus thirteen new species are described, and 

 a new genus Microphthiras is erectetl for M. imcinaius, Ferris. 



HoRST (M. D.) & DE Kaadt (0. L. E.). De juiste Namen voor de 

 Javaansche groote Huisrat en de Sawahrat. [The correct Names 

 for the big Java House-rat and for the Field-rat.] — Tijdschr. 

 Vergelijk. Geneesk., Leyden, iii, 1918, pp. 253-255, 1 plate. 

 [Received 7th February 1920.] 



This note is of interest in view of the relation of rats to fleas and 

 the spread of plague due to their association. As the result of exami- 

 nations made at the Leyden Natural History Museum the large Java 

 house-rat, formerly known as Mus griseiventer, Bonhote, is here stated 

 to be Mus diardii, Jentink. The latter name has hitherto been used 

 for the field-rat [in the Dutch East Indies], and this must now be 

 re-named Mus rattus brevicaudatus, subsp. n. 



DE Raadt (0. L. E.). label voor Determineering van Indische 

 Ratten. label voor Determineering van Vlooien [Fleas], label 

 voor Determinatie van Anophelinen in Nederlandsch-Oost-Indie. 



— Tijdschr. Vergelijk. Geneesk., Leyden, iv, 1919, pp. 82-95, 8 figs. 

 [Received 7th February 1920.] 



The first of these tables describes the distinguishing features of the 

 rats found in British India and the Dutch East Indies. The second 

 deals with fleas in general. The third table, of which W. H. van Seters 

 is a joint- author, covers the Anopheline mosquitos of the Dutch 

 East Indies. 



Stein (P.). Einige Anthomyiden von der Insel Simalur bei Sumatra. 



[Some Anthomyids from the Island of Simalur near Sumatra.] — ■ V 

 Tidschr. Entomologie, The Hague, Ixii (1919), Supplmt., January ^ 

 1920, pp. 40-46. 



Anthomyiden aus Java, Sumatra, Waigeoe und Cersun.— Ibidem, 

 pp. 47-86. 



Among the flies dealt with in the first of these papers are Stomoxys 

 calcitrans, Lyperosias^., and Musca domesticajioul other species being y 

 described as new. \ 



From the islands mentioned in the title of the second paper the specie* 

 recorded include Stomoxys brunnipes, Griinb., S. calcitrans, 

 Philaematomyia crassirostris, Stein, and 22 new ones. A key is 

 given to the male characters of Ophyra chalcogaster, Wied., 0. spinigera. 

 Stein, 0. simplex, Stein, and 0. hirtitibia, sp. n.J 



