104 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



142. Damage to Young Elm Trees. 



143. Inquiry re superphosphate of Lime for slags. 



144. Apple cuttings damaged by a fungus (like scale). 



145. Information re supposed disease in Bees. 



146. Identification of Tick (Argas i:)ersicu8) Miana Bug 



causing annoyance in Quetta. 



147. Canapata Ticks and poison. 



148. Figure-of-eight Moth (Dilohia caeruleocephala). 



149. Correspondence re advisability of keeping stock under 



trees washed with Caustic Alkali Wash. 



150. Information re Forest Tree Pests. 



151. Information re Edible Snail and breeding them. 



152. Identification of Mite causing annoyance in the houses 



at Hobart. Red Hen Mite (Dermanyssus avium). 



153. Maggot of a small fly on Mite-infested Black Currant 



Bushes (Account of). 



154. Furniture Mites — Need of investigation. 



156. Letter re Literature on Edible Snails. 



157. Human Ticks (Ornithodoros Savignyi, var. caeca) 



carrying fever in Uganda — Report on the species. 



158. Note on the Mites of the Canary, Linnet, &c. 



159. Report on Black Currant-buds affected and free from 



Bud Mites. 



160. Information regarding Boskop variety of Black 



Currant, said to be mite-proof. 

 About three hundred other minor communications have 

 been attended to, dealing with insect, mite, worm, and other 

 pests and insecticides. 



iii.^summary of some of the reports on mosquitoes, 

 Malaria, Yellow Fever, and Filariasis, 



1. Report on Culicidee from East African Protectorate 



(Dr. C. Christy), (On his march in Uganda), 



2. Report on Culicidse collected by Dr. Fajardo. 



3. Letter on the best books on Culicidoe giving account of 



larvee, &c. (Captain L. Lyle Cummins, R.a.m.s., Cairo). 



4. Report of Culicidse from Santa Cruz, TenerifFe (Dr. 



Grabham). 



5. Note on distribution of Culex spathipalpis and Racho- 



deomya zammitii in Malta (Dr. Zammit). 



6. Report on new Indian Anopheles (Capt. James, i.M.s.). 



7. Note on genera of new species and of new genus 



Verrallia (Capt. James, t.m.s.). 



8. Names of new genera of Culicidae (Prof. Blanchard). 



9. Information on the habits and distribution of Tlieohaldia 



annulata (W. H. Jackson, Esq., Keble College, 

 Oxford). 



10. Report on Culicidse and note of occurrence of Theo- 



haldia annulata in America (Miss Ludlow, U.S.A.). 



11. Report on new species and genera of Culicidae from 



Brazil (Dr. Lutz, Sao Paulo). 



