The Imperial Bureau of Entomology has recently received from Mr. Ll. Lloyd, Entomologist to the British South Africa Company in Northern Rhodesia, a small Bombyliid fly accompanied by the following letter, dated “Mwengwa, Mumbwa, viâ Broken Hill, N. Rhodesia, November 1, 1913.—I am sending you herewith a specimen of a Dipteron, which I believe to be a parasite of G. morsitans. During July and August of this year I collected about 700 pupae of this Tsetse in nature at Ngoa, in the Mpika Division of Northern Rhodesia. These were kept under observation until September 15th, when I was compelled to travel through fly-free country for a month; they were accordingly closed up in a fly-proof case to avoid escape (in case of possible fracture of one or more of the bottles containing the pupae), and were not examined again until October 18th. On this date one of the bottles, which had contained five Tsetse pupae collected on July 21st, was found to contain:—

In this paper four new species of Phlebotomus are described, three from Africa and one from the Malay States, and the differential characters and affinities of seven other known species are described and illustrated. Three specimens, including one of P. minutus, Rond., and two of P. papatasii (Scop.), have been observed to possess supernumerary spines on the superior claspers: a remarkable and apparently hitherto unrecorded phenomenon in this genus. In several instances fresh data are given as to the geographical distribution of these insects, and an endeavour has been made to clear up some confusion with regard to certain closely allied species.

In January 1912, the writer collected in Trinidad, B.W.I., what is in all probability Pseudaonidia fossor, Newst. (Bull. Ent. Research, iv, p. 308, 1914). The insects occurred on the twigs of a plant that has been determined as Ficus comosa. The leaves of the same plant were heavily infested on the under surface by what is probably Aspidiotus personatus, Comst.