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and at Tiberias it was much less common than Ph. papatasi. 
Another irritating blood-sucker common at Tiberias in October, 
though much less so than Ph. papatasi, is a minute Chiro- 
nomid of the subfamily Ceratopogoninae. Like Phlebotomus 
it is ae: in habits. 
erias is notorious even in Palestine for its fleas | Bed 
1 irritans) but in the German hotel in which I stayed I saw 
and felt none.—N. Annandale.]| 
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