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9. Larvae of a species of Sarcophaga removed at Bhavnagar 

 Para, India, from the palate and nose of a human 

 being. (Specimens, with request for identification 

 and information, forwarded by the Chief Medical 

 Ofiicer, Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Rail- 

 way, Bhavnagar Para.) 



10. Dipterous larvae said to have been drawn with milk 



from a cow's udder. (Specimens received for identi- 

 fication from Prof. G. H. Carpenter, Royal College of 

 Science for Ireland, Dublin.) 



11. Glossina palpalis, Rob.-Desv. (the disseminator of 



Sleeping Sickness) and other species of Tsetse-flies 

 in various portions of the British dominions in Africa. 

 (Numerous inquiries received from the Director of the 

 Sleeping Sickness Bureau.) 



12. Sm^W Ries CAphiochceta ferruginea, Brun., and Hip]pe- 



lates bilineatus, de Meijere) bred from larvae vomited 

 by an Indian patient in the Civil Hospital, Hong 

 Kong. (Specimens forwarded for identification by 

 the Government Bacteriologist, Hong Kong.) 



13. A species of mosquito {Pyretophoriis cinereus, Theob.), 



possibly the disseminating agent in an epidemic 

 of malaria, which occurred in 1909 in the district of 

 Gordonia, Province of the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 caused over 400 deaths. (Specimens sent, with 

 request for identification and information, by Dr. 

 E. H. Phillips, District Surgeon, Gordonia, Province 

 of the Cape of Good Hope.) 



14. A blow-fly infesting certain districts in Queensland. 



(Request for information received from Mr. P. G. 

 Mylne Mitchell, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.) 



15. Mosquitoes (Culicidoe) ; inquiry how to rid house 



of them. 



The following are some of the objects of inquiry, among 

 the other Orders, upon which information and advice have 

 been sought, and as far as possible given : — 

 1. Pests in houses — 



{a) Bed bug (Cimex) and flea (Pulex) ; inquiry 

 as to life-histories. 



(b) Furniture mites {Glycyphagus). 



(c) Ticks {Omithodorus mouhata) infesting 

 native nuts in Transvaal. 



{d) '■' Wood-worms " or Beetle larvae (Anohium 

 domesticuvi) in furniture. 



(e) Beetle {Anohium paniceurri) infesting room, 

 supposed to have been introduced in stufiing of 

 pincushion. 



(/) Mealworm beetle {Tenehrio molitor) in house. 



