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erroneously recorded from tlie Malay Peninsula. Valid species are : — 

 A. aitkeni, James, A. albirostris, Theo., A. alhotaeniatus, Theo., 

 A. aurirostris, Watson, A. asiaticus, Leicester, A. barbirostris,Ya.ndeT 

 Wulp, A. fidiginosus, Giles, A. kochi, Bon., A. leucosphyrus, Don., 

 A. ludlowi, Theo., A. maculatus, Theo., A. nigrans, Stanton, A. rossi, 

 Giles, A. tessellatus, Theo., A. umhrosus, Theo., A. wafsoni, Leicester, 

 A . wellingtonianus, Alcock. [A . sinensis appears to have been omitted 

 in the above list.] Errors in identification : — A. listoni, Liston, 

 for A. albirostris, Theobald; A. jpunctulatus, Donitz, for A. tessellatus, 

 Theobald ; A. willmori, James, for A. maculatus, Theobald. Professor 

 Donitz was engaged in describing the AnopheUne fauna of Sumatra 

 and Java at about the same time that Mr. Theobald was engaged on 

 that of Malaya. Most Enghsh-speaking workers adopted the latter's 

 nomenclature, neglecting the fact that often Professor Donitz's des- 

 criptions were published first ; hence confusion has arisen. 



Kecords of malaria infection in AnopJieles are as follows : James, 

 enumerates the following species in Lidia : A. culicifacies, Giles, 

 A. fuliginosus, Giles, A. listoni, Liston, A. macidipalpis, James and 

 Liston, A. stephensi, Liston. Christophers reports ludlowi in the 

 Andaman Islands. From Sumatra, SchiifEner reports a species which 

 he refers to as Anopheles I* and which Eysell claims to be ^. rossi ; 

 De Vogel (1910) also records the successful infection of A. rossi bred 

 from salt-water pools. From Formosa, Miyajima and Kinoshita 

 rt^ord A. listoni, Liston, A. annulipes, A. sinensis, Wied., A. 

 formosaensis. 



In the Federated Malay States, Leicester, James and Stanton report 

 A. maculatus, Theobald, A. karwari, James [nigrans, Stanton), A. 

 umbrosus, A. fuliginosus, Giles, A. albirostris, Theobald, A. sinensis, 

 Wied. Further evidence is required to prove that A. rossi camea 

 malaria, Drs. SchiifEner and De Vogel being chiefly responsible for 

 incriminating it. The author mentions A. karwari, A. barbirostris and 

 A. kochi as having been examined by him with negative results. So 

 far as malignant malaria is concerned, the group of small brown 

 AnopJieles which includes A. listoni, A. culifacies and A. albirostris is 

 chiefly to blame in the Oriental region. Next in general importance 

 is the Nyssorhynchus group, which comprises A. maculatus, A. 

 fuliginosus and A. stephensi. The part played by such species as 

 A. ludlowi, A. sinensis and A. umbrosus is less clearly defined and 

 seems to warrant further inquiry. In concluding this useful paper, 

 the author urges the further systematic study of the Anophehne fauna 

 of the various countries represcDted at the Congress. 



Jennings (A. H.). U.S. Bur. Entom. Summary of Two Years' Study 

 of Insects in Relation to Pellagra.— JZ. of Parasitology, TJrbana, i, 

 no. 1, September 1914, pp. 10-21. 



This paper is chiefly based upon the author's work in cooperation 

 with the Thompson-McFadden Commission in 1912-1913. His 

 conclusions are as follows :— Ticks, bed-bugs, mosquitos, fleas, horse- 

 flies, and, in the absence of further and more incriminating evidence, 

 lice, may be dismissed from consideration as transmitters of pellagra ; 



*Sincc described by the author as A. schiiffneri. — Ed. 



