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statement of sound scientific value, I would remark that I have 
isolated from the two main varieties labelled ‘ grey leg’ and the 
‘ dove,’ a micrococus much resembling that of Mediterranean 
fever and a bacillus of much the same characters as the 
B. typhorus , but until I have leisure to make further research 
no importance or worth can be attached to their discovery. ’ 
Ficalbi, on the other hand, has not found it to suck blood, and 
believes it to feed on the juices of plants. He has observed its 
larvae in the depth of winter. 
Major Giles sends two specimens from Naini Tal, India, taken 
at an altitude of 7000 feet in June and July in a bath-room. 
These Indian specimens differ only from the Gibraltar ones in 
having the basal white abdominal bands more symmetrical with 
no lateral expansions ; in all other points they agree. The male 
ungues are just as Ficalbi describes. 
6. CuLEX LONGIAREOLATUS. Macquart. 
(Dipt. Exot. i. p. 34, Macquart; Hist. Nat. des lies Canaries, Bertlielot.) 
Thorax brown, covered with narrow curved golden-brown 
scales and broader creamy ones forming a median line on a dark 
ground and a curved lateral line on each side. Abdomen with 
the basal parts of the segments yellowish-brown, apical portions 
black, last two segments quite black, covered with creamy and 
dull brown scales, the pale scales forming basal pale bands. 
Legs yellow-brown, a line of white scales on the fore tibiae, 
metatarsi and tarsi with basal white bands; femora with 
scattered brown and grey scales. Wings with four spots of 
scales. 
9 . Head brown, with creamy curved scales, a narrow 
white border round the eyes, flat white scales at the sides of the 
head and with black bristles ; palpi brown, with scattered white 
scales; proboscis yellowish-brown, black towards the apex, long, 
the labella rather elongated ; antennae dark brown, the basal 
joint and subsequent two or three joints with white scales on 
their inner sides. 
Thorax brown, covered with narrow curved golden-brown 
and rather broader curved creamy scales as follows : the pale 
scales forming a median line on a dark ground and a curved 
lateral line on each side, of moderate breadth ; scutellum brown, 
with creamy curved scales and long brown border-bristles; 
