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A NOTABLE feature of recent biological research is the attention paid by medical experts to the study of insects. Capt. F. W. Cragg, of the Indian Service, has lately published two Scientific Memoirs (Nos. 54 and 55) of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India, which are of importance to students of the anatomy of Diptera. Both memoirs deal with blood-sucking species, No. 54 with Philaematomyia insignis, and No. 55 with Haematopota pluvialis. The excessively small number of males of the latter fly is believed by Capt. Cragg, after examination of the genitalia of the female insect, to be explained by heavy mortality as the result of pairing. We notice that the bibliography of this paper contains some remarkable misprints, of which “Verh. yool-bat. Gas. Wein” is worthy of record as a piece of unconscious humour! The last published part of the Bulletin of Entomological Research (vol. iii., part 4, December, 1912) contains valuable systematic papers on blood-sucking Diptera, by Mr. E. E. Austen and Prof. R. Newstead, and some very useful diagnoses of the larval stages of African mosquitoes, by Messrs. F. W. Edwards and A. T. Stanton.
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C., G. Advance in Economic Entomology . Nature 91, 674–675 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091674a0
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