ceviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {N.S., XV, 
you and I belong, will Lota the soldiers and the generals of 
the future; and the struggle upon which they are to 
engaged will be as ae as that now so happily past. The 
organized intelligence. In this endeavour the State and the 
public are interested as vitally as ourselves, for it is they 
we serve ; but the support of the one and the confidence of the 
other will be gained only if we, the medical profession, prepare 
to abandon the futilities and half-measures with which we have 
been content in the past ; if we resolutely determine no longer 
to tolerate incompetence, evasion of responsibility, or inade- 
quacy of education in our midst ; and if we will display i in the 
may aspire to greater victories and. more lasting triumphs than 
the world has hitherto seen 
The — places of Phlebotomus in Lahore.—By J. L. 
MITTE 
The di Sica in locating the breeding places of Phlebotomus are 
due to = fact tha . the larve and pupz escape detection owing to their 
minute si 
The e aaiiot of material under a binocular epson kt gives the 
pro Retire réscilte and i is the only means of securing a larger of larve 
and pupe 
The bree ding places ok Phlebotomus are not restricted to rt particu- 
be sites in India, such a aie, rubble walls, caves, latrines, etc., but 
ese flies are capa sie of Salings | in any place where the eg Ne are 
pets able. 
The necessary conditions are darkness, a certain degree of moisture, 
— the presence of decaying vegetable matter, which must remain undis- 
urbed for some time. 
e conditions of breeding places tor gees | vary in different species. 
The © papatasit require a mats river abs amount of darkness, but this condition is 
not a ial in the case of m 
e suggestion of Sapte Manet of a host being probable is incor- 
paiigs as ba the whole cycle of development is passed in decaying vegetation 
The results of a mosquito aa of Indore City.—By 
M. O. TrrunaRaYANA IYENGAR 
The paper deals with the different Letending habits of mosquitoes 
found in ure City and their prevalence in relation with the en nviron- 
ments. It also includes an sislonical study oa the aquatic plant-life an nd 
nigeLlife which to a large extent determ the got articular species of 
mosquito breeding in the water. Other # ampocte of aquatic biology are 
ve Anophelines, namely Anopheles rosst, A. culi ictfacies, A. stephen- 
si, A. fuliginosus, and A. barbirostris , breed in the rivers and 
Indore in bers 
condition of the waters. sepa of aquatic sh age tot semi-aqua 
b-aquatic ; : ee 
