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are recorded as feeding on man ; in India a species of PJilebotomus 

 has been observed sucking the blood of a toad. 



Discussing this paper Mr. Knab draws attention to the marked 

 difference in the feeding habits of species of Phlehotomus, which the 

 observations made in the present paper accentuate. It is recognised 

 that P. papatasii, of the Mediterranean region, the vector of the so- 

 called pappataci fever, is associated with man, frequenting houses, 

 and the females sucking his blood. Mr. Howlett shows that another 

 species common in the Orient, P. minutus, has a marked preference 

 for the blood of geckos, and states that the distribution of P. minutus 

 and of the Geckonidae correspond very closely, and that the biology 

 and life-history of this species is closely associated with these lizards. 

 (Howlett, Ind. Jl. Med. Research, i, pp. 34-38, July 1913 ; see this 

 Revieiv^eT. B, i. p. 211). 



GuENTHER (K.). Die lebenden Bewohner der Kannen der insekten- 



fressenden Pflanze Nepenthes destillatoria auf Ceylon. [Living 



inhabitants of the pitchers of the insect-eating plant, Nejjenthes 



destillatoria, in Ceylon.] — Zeitschrift fur unsse>ischaftliche Insekten- 



hiologie, Berlin, ix, nos. 6, 7, 8, July-Sept, 1913, pp. 198-207 and 



259-270, 14 figs. 



Among the living insects found in the pitchers of Nepenthes 



destillatoria in Ceylon were numerous mosquito larvae, which the 



author describes under the name of Ficalbia [Rachionotomyia] dofleini. 



LuTz (A.). Forest Malaria. — Proc. Entom. Soc., Washington, xv, no. 4, 

 Dec. 1913, pp. 169-170. 

 In answer to the objections raised by Mr. Knab and Dr. Dyar to 

 his theory that isolated epidemics of malaria in forests are due to bush 

 mosquitos, [see this Revieiv. Ser. B, i, p. 230,] the author makes the 

 following reply. Another Anophehne had not been mistaken for 

 Anopheles lutzi, as had been suggested ; that other Anophelines had 

 not been overlooked, a special look-out having been kept for them ; 

 that the men attacked with malaria could not, as stated, have returned 

 to towns during the night, all towns being too far distant from the 

 forest camps to make the journey possible within the course of a 

 night* ; and that the contention that mosquitos, which have never 

 been in contact with men before, cannot transmit disease, is erroneous 

 and contrary to observed facts. 



MoR.STATT (H.). Liste der blutsaugenden Fliegen und Zecken. [A Ust 



of blood-sucking flies and ticks.] — Der Pflanzer, Dar-Es-Salamn, 

 ix, no. 10, Oct. 1913, pp. 507-510, 1 pi. 



A full list is given of the bloodsucking flies and ticks recorded from 

 German East Africa, which is chiefly based on the list published by 

 S. A. Neave {Bull. Ent. Res. iii, p. 316). Of mosquitos 19 species 

 are recorded, including 5 Anophelines ; while there are 58 Tabanidae, 

 5 Glossina, 11 Stomoxys and 10 Hippoboscidae. The ticks are repre- 

 sented by 1 Argasid and 32 Ixodidae. 



*[There does not appear to have been any suggestion on the part of 

 Dr. Dyar that the towns had been visited in the course of a single night. 

 —Ed.] 



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