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the scales of the turtle standing nearly perpendicular to the sur- 

 face of the body, gradually becoming thicker with the integument 

 as it continued inward. On removing a portion of the blackened 

 material within the funnel, six large maggots were disclosed, appar- 

 ently feeding on the fresh adipose tissue. The turtle was killed 

 and this infested portion with the maggots was removed and placed 

 in a glass tumbler partly filled with earth and covered with cheese 

 cloth. This was on April 26, and they pupated on the following 

 day, having left the mass of tissue and crawled into the earth. 

 The adult flies began to emerge on May 22 and continued until 

 May 24, when the total number was complete. These, as well 

 as the puparia were determined definitely as Sarcophagids, but 

 owing to the somewhat chaotic conditions of this family the iden- 

 tity of the species was uncertain. The surroundings being unfa- 

 vorable for keeping them alive, they all died by May 28 and the 

 writer was unable to try with them any reproduction experiments 

 on caterpillars. 



T. L. Patterson. 



[Mr. Patterson has asktd me to add a short note regarding similar recorded 

 cases of turtles infested by S.ircophagid larvae. Apparently the first reference to 

 such larvae, definitely shown to belong to a species of this family was made in 

 1890 by Wheeler (a supposed Bot-fly Parasite of the Box-turtle. Psyche, Vol. 5, 

 p. 403). He succeeded in rearing adults of a Sarcophaga from larvae found in a 

 pocket beneath the skin upon the neck of a turtle which had been taken near 

 Windsor, Connecticut. Wheeler refers to a previous account by Packard (Ameri- 

 can Naturalist, Vol. 16, p. 5)8, 188i2) of similar larvae from the neck of the same 

 species of turtle collected at Middleboro, Massachusetts. As no adults were reai'ed, 

 Packard supposed the larvae to be those of some species of bot-fly. More recently, 

 Mr. H. G. Barber has described at a meeting of the New York Entomological Society, 

 a turtle similarly parasitized.] Editor. 



ERRATA. 



The following corrections and additions should be made to the article by C. S. 

 Ludlow on " The Philippine Mosquitoes," published in the last number of Psyche: 



Page 125, under Anophelinae, add to the list, Myzomyia hidlowii Theob. 



Page 126, second column, line 39, for ludlowii, read ludlowi. 



Page 127, first column, line 1, for aureosqumatus, read aureosquamatus. 



Page 127, second column, remove Hodgesia Theobald, nireocaputis sp. nov., and 

 place under Urotaeniinae. This genus does not belong to the Harpagomyinae, 

 and its appearance is an oversight, due to the original arrangement. 



