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there has been considerable intercourse, it seems probable that it may have been 

 introduced and become established in certain parts.* 



Order Anoplura. 

 Family Haematopinidae. 



Haematopinus eurysternus, Nitzsch. This louse is found on cattle practically 

 everywhere throughout Mozambique. I have specimens from Lourenco Marques, 

 Chai Chai, Bilene, Inyambane, Mambone, Beira and Sena. I also have 

 specimens from cattle at Vrededorp, Orange River Colony. 



Haematopinus suis (L.) This louse was taken from pigs at Umbelusi. The 

 following variety seems to be the usual form found. 



Haematopinus suis var. adventitiiis, Neumann. This variety, recently described 

 by Prof. Neumann, seems to be very common on pigs about Lourenco Marques. 



Haematopinus tuberculatus, Giebel. Specimens of this species were taken in 

 December, 1909, from buffalos, which had been imported from Timor and were 

 in quarantine on Inhaca (Inyack) Island at the mouth of Delagoa Bay. 



Haematopinus vituli (L.) These lice were taken from cattle at Pretoria, 

 Transvaal. 



Family Pediculidae. 



Pediculus capitis, De Geer. These are a common pest among the natives. I 

 have specimens from natives on the Zambesi River and from a white child at 

 Maputo, near Lourenco Marques, who had probably acquired them from a native 

 nurse-girl. Those from the natives are very dark in colour. A variety of this 

 species was taken from a native at Mopea, on the Zambesi. 



Phthirius pubis, L. From a European at Lourenco Marques and also from 

 Europeans at Pretoria. 



Order MALLOrHAGA. 



Family Philopteridae. 



Degeeriella vittata (Giebel). This, together with some of the species to follow, 

 were sent in by correspondents with no notes as to locality or host, except that 

 they were taken from birds. 



Degeeriella bicuspis, Nitzsch. Taken from Swainson's plover, Stephanibyx 

 inornatus, Swains. 



* [The contention that C. rotundatus has been introduced into Africa from the East has 

 already been commented upon in this Bulletin (vol. ii., p. 180). It was there pointed out that 

 of the numerous bed-bugs received by the Entomological Research Committee from Northern 

 Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and Northern and Southern Nigeria every specimen is C. rotundatus ; 

 indeed, up to the time of writing, not a single example of C. lectularius has been received by the 

 Committee from Tropical Africa. In view of the prevalence of rotundatus in N.E. Rhodesia, 

 Mr. Howard's statement that lectidarius is abundant in S. Rhodesia may perhaps need modifica- 

 tion. To the African localities already recorded for rotundatus the following can now be 

 added : — 



Nyasaland: Fort Johnston (Dr. A. H. Barclay) ; British East Africa: Mombasa 

 (Dr. W. Radford and Dr. F. L. Henderson), Kalife (R. P. Thomas), Nairobi (Dr. J. A. Haran, 

 C.M.G.), Nakuru (Dr. H. Bodeher) ; Uganda : Entebbe (Dr. G. C. Strathairn), Lake Albert 

 district (G. H. Pooley), Mwanga's, Unyoro (Capt. E. D. W. Grieg) ; Gambia : Alijamadu 

 (Dr. J. J. Simpson) ; Sierra Leone : Batkanu (Dr. J. C. Murphy), Freetown (Major F. Smith) ; 

 Gold Coast : Tarkwa (Dr. R. Cope) ; Southern Nigeria : Lagos (Dr. A Connal). 



So far as Tropical Africa is concerned, C. lectularius is represented in the British Museum 

 collection by ouly a single specimen from Freetown, Sierra Leone. — Ed.] 



