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three weeks of age, born prematurely at seven months, and bottle 

 fed from "birth, and came from pustules on the palm of the hand, 

 back of the neck, and between the great and second toes of the right 

 foot. These "worms" were about one-fifth of an inch long. The 

 infant had slept in its carriage out of doors for many hours nearly 

 every day since its birth. The larvae were sent to a specialist in 

 Washington, who identified them as Gastrophikis epilepsalis, French. 



Banks, however, Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, December, 1903, claims 

 that it is wrongly named. This same 

 specialist identified French's origin- 

 al larvae and doubtless had the type 

 with which he compared my speci- 

 men. A case somewha.t similar to 

 this was reported in 1899 by Dr. H. 

 ^''k}^.i- M^^gsf' t^ken from under c_ Addcrly of Illinois. In this case 



the skin of a three-weeks old in- -' 



fant. Original. ^ l3oy, tcu ycars of age, had been 



suffering for four years from epileptic spasms, sometimes having twen- 

 ty spasms in twenty-four hours. The patient was constipated, and 

 upon the use of a cathartic, hundreds of maggots were seen in the 

 excreta. These were sent to Prof. French, and he named them Gas- 

 trophilus epilepsalis, as above, and this species sent me by the Minne- 

 sota physician is claimed to be identical with the one named by French. 

 It is to be regretted that the larvae were not sent alive, so that they 

 might have been reared to the adult stage, in which stage they could 

 have been identified absolutely. 



In this connection it may be said that this department would 

 thoroughly appreciate specimens of this kind coming to the notice 

 of physicians over the state. They should be sent to the office of the 

 entomologist, securely packed in some moist cotton, or in moist 

 earth, and upon their arrival would be so cared for that they would 

 undoubtedly complete their transformations. The writer would 

 be very glad to give any one sending such maggots the benefit of 

 any and all information obtained from rearing them. 



Minnesota species : Gastrophilus equi, Clark ; G. haemorrhoidalis, 

 Linn.; G. nasalis, Linn., from sheep; G. epilepsalis, French (doubtful; 

 probably not an Oestrid) ; Hypoderma lineata, De Vill. ; Cuter ebra huc- 

 cata, Fab., from throat of Neotoma; C. grisea, Coq., from Gopher; 

 C. horripilum, Clark. 



