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the goat, and at the end of December and early January fall to the 

 ground and pupate. Adult flies emerged from pupae kept in the 

 laboratory between 19th February and 1st March in 1921. In India, 

 where there is always a goatherd in charge of the animals, it would 

 be an easy matter to examine the goats daily and to squeeze out and 

 destroy the larvae. The quarters where they are kept at night should 

 also be examined each morning, and any larvae that have fallen to the 

 ground should be destroyed. 



Strauss (P.). Sur la Destruction des Mouches domestiques. Circulaire 

 du Ministre de I'Hygiene, de I'Assistance et de la Pr^voyance 

 SOCiales.— //. d'Agric. Prat., Paris, xxxvii, no. 18, 6th May 1922, 

 pp. 361-362. [Received 29th September 1922.] 



The object of this circular, dated 15th April 1922, is to emphasise 

 the importance of destroying house-flies [Mvisca domestica, L.], the 

 measures to be adopted being based largely on the work of Vaillard 

 [R.A.E., B, i, 191]. 



Ferguson (E. W.) & Hill (G. F.). Notes on Australian Tabanidae. 



Part ii. — Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, xlvii, pt. 3, 15th 

 September 1922, pp. 245-265, 10 figs. 



In this continuation of a paper already noticed [R.A.E., B, ix, 62], 

 the new species recorded are Silviiis equinus, Tabanus pseudopalpalis 

 (previously recorded by Taylor as T. nemopunctatus, Ric. [R.A.E., 

 B, vi, 74]), T. pseudocallosus, T. hreinli, T. palmensis, T. torresi, 

 T. wentworthi, and T. griseicolor. 



The following new names are suggested : T.alternatus for T. limhati- 

 nervis, Macq. (nom. praeocc), T. alternatus var. magneticus, n. ; T. 

 palmerstoni for T. minusculus, Ferg. & Hill (nee Hine) which was 

 itself originally proposed for T. minor, Tayl. (nee Macq.) [R.A.E., 

 B, ix, 62] ; T. rivtdaris for T. pygmaeus, Ferg. & Henry (nee Will.) ; 

 T. moretonensis for T. confusus, Tayl. (nee Walk.) ; T. neolatifrons for 

 T. latifrons, Ferg, (nee latifrons, Zetterstedt, which is itself a synon\^m 

 of cordiger, Meigen) ; T. adelaidae for T. meridionalis, Ferg (nee 

 Thunb.) ; and T. milsoniensis for T. milsoni, Tayl. (nee milsonis, 

 Ric). 



Reichenow (E.). Die Hamococcidien der Eidechsen. [The Haemo- 

 coccidia of Lizards.] — Arch. f. Protistenk., Jena, xlii, pt. 2, 1921, 

 pp. 179-292, 8 plates, 17 figs. 



This paper on the transmission of blood parasites of lizards by mites 

 has already been noticed from another source [R.A.E., B, viii, 208]. 



BucHNER (P.). Uber ein neues symbiontisches Organ der Bettwanze. 



[A new Symbiotic Organ of the Bed-bug.] — Biol. Zentralblatt, 

 Leipsic, xh, no. 12, 1st December 1921, pp. 570-574. 



The organ here described is found in Cimex {Acanthia) lectularius in 

 the third abdominal segment beside the intestine and in the neighbour- 

 liood of the sexual organs. It occurs in both sexes, its sole function 

 being apparentl}' to harbour symbiotic bacteria. 



