The subject of ticks and the diseases they convey is one of great practical importance to agriculturists and pathologists in such a country as the Congo. Of the species recorded from the Congo, one conveys relapsing fever to man and eight have been shown to convey diseases to domesticated animals in various parts of Africa.

Up to the present time no single species of the cosmopolitan genus Thrips has been recorded from the mainland of India. In fact our knowledge of the Thysanoptera of this country is extremely fragmentary. Schmutz in 1913 (Sitzb. der K. Akad. Wissensch. in Wien, Math-nat. kl. cxxii, p. 1–99) described forty-four species from Ceylon, and since that time about a dozen more have been added, and no doubt many of these will be found to occur on the mainland. At present, however, only seven species are recorded. These are: Physothrips lefroyi, Bagnall, Physothrips usitatus, Bagnall, Helioihrips indicus, Bagnall, Panchaetothrips indicus, Bagnall, Hindsiana apicalis, Bagnall, Phoxothrips breviceps, Bagnall, and Leeuwenia indicus, Bagnall. It is probably no exaggeration to say that there are at least two thousand species in that country still awaiting discovery.

♀ Head: sides clothed with flat white scales, interrupted by a rather narrow horizontal band of flat black ones; two large patches of flat black scales on the top, separated by a rather narrow band of narrow white scales extending from the nape on to the front; a narrow line of narrow white scales bordering the upper part of the eyes. Eyes well separated. Proboscis and palpi black. First antennal joint blackish, greypruinose. Thorax: integument blackish, except for the reddish scutellum and a small pale spot on each side at the base of the postnotum. Prothoracic lobes and the space behind them clothed with flat white scales. Scutum clothed with narrow yellowish-white and blackish scales, the former arranged in definite narrow lines as follows: a median line extending from the front margin to a little in front of the scutellum, where it forks into two; a line on each side of this extending the whole length of the scutum, enlarged a little in front of the middle and sending a branch obliquely forwards from this point to the lateral angle of the thorax; and another line forming a border to the scutum. Scutellum with narrow scales, mostly yellowishwhite, but some black ones on each side of the middle lobe. Pleurae with several patches of flat white scales. Abdomen black, above with conspicuous pure white basal lateral patches and traces of yellowish-white basal bands on all the segments; venter black, all the segments with pure white basal bands. Eighth segment welldeveloped, only partly retractile; cerci short, rather broad and rounded at the tip.

Among some weevils forwarded for identification by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist, Pusa, Bengal, certain species were indicated as causing damage of economic importance; of these the following six species proved to be undescribed.

The collection contains no novelties or species of special interest. The enumeration of them will, however, contribute to a knowledge of the local fauna of the country, of the distribution of the several species, and of the plants that they affect.

Adult female broadly oval, convex above. Body soft (not rigidly chitinous as in most LECANIINAE). Colour of examples preserved in alcohol, whitish to brownish ochreous; with two median longitudinal series of small depressed dark spots and transverse series of similar spots radiating from the median series to the margin. Photographs of the insect in alcohol (fig. 1) show the marginal area to be rather closely coated with white pulverulent secretion, with traces of a lamellate marginal fringe of waxy matter; in some examples there are irregular flecks of secretion on the dorsum.

Since my previous report on the Chalcidoid parasites of Glossina appeared (Bull.Ent. Res., vi, pt. 1, p. 69, 1915) a second important collection has been received by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology from Dr. W. A. Lamborn, their Entomologist in Nyasaland. In this materal five species are represented, of which three here described are believed to be new. The status of the remaining two, Stomatoceras micans, Wtrst., and Syntomosphyrum glossinae, Wtrst., may now be regarded as established, in the former case from its recurrence on the same host in two widely separated localities, in the latter from Dr. Lamborn's valuable notes. Six species of Chalcidoids have now been bred from puparia of Glossina spp., and all from G. morsitans.

Adult female (as observed in specimens preserved in alcohol) broadly oval (fig. 1, b, c), strongly convex (fig. 1, a), circular under compression; divisions of segments indicated on the dorsum by moderately deep transverse furrows: marginal area tumescent, overlapping the ventral area (fig. 1, b). Colour (of alcoholic material) ochreous, brownish, or olivaceous, very thinly powdered with white mealy secretion.

During a recent visit to Samoa the senior author had an opportunity to collect a few COCCIDAE. No time was available to make a systematic search for these insects and the specimens collected were only such as were seen in the course of other work. As a list of these has been asked for, it seems desirable to publish the following brief notes with the descriptions of the three apparently undescribed species.

Type (female) and two other females from Kuala Lumpur (Dr. A. T. Stanton) and one female from Selangor, Malacca (H. N. Ridley, 1896), this last being in the British Museum collection.

The blood-sucking flies here dealt with were collected in Hong Kong by Dr. H. Macfarlane, the Government Bacteriologist, and Mr. Adam Gibson, M.R.C.V.S., the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and were forwarded by them to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. The collection comprises not many species, but long series of several species, such as Tabanus rubidus, Wied., T. albimedius, Wlk., T. sanguinarius, Wlk., and T. mandarinus, Schiner.

Inasmuch as Phlebotomus verrucarum, Towns., has been seriously questioned as the vective agent of verruga in an important memoir recently issued,* the writer feels it incumbent upon him to answer the objections raised, as well as to reply to the various speculations put forward in the same work relating to the subject of the insect transmission of the disease.

♀ The entire integument of the head and body metallic and shagreened, or highly raised reticulate; the abdominal tergites being a little smoother. Head in profile triangular, from above somewhat thin, shallowly concave across the frons, rounded behind the eyes from vertex to genae; but medianly, behind the raised ocellar traingle, there is an inconspicuous ridge before the occiput; from in front, exceedingly wide, the scrobes set close together in the middle of the face, well above the base line of the bare eyes. Labrum long, spade-shaped, conspicuous; mandibles similar, bidentate, a little asymmetrical. Antenna thirteen-jointed, with simple cylindrical joints; the divisions of the club indistinct. Thorax much swollen; pronotum almost concealed behind the head; nearly separated into two tergites; prosternum posteriorly truncated, triangular; mesonotum with the parapsidal furrows fine and hardly traceable. Axillae quadrate, touching, or only separated narrowly (?). Scutellum with a transverse suture before the unarmed, rounded apex; mesopleural femoral furrow well-marked, and the prepectus rather large. Wings: forewings with the post-marginal almost obsolete; radius very short, with a terminal group of clear cells instead of the usual linear arrangement. Hind wings with the submarginal cell long and wide. Legs: fore coxae long; hind tibiae bicalcarate without apical comb. Abdomen sessile or practically so; broad, depressed and broadly concave above; very shortly carinate (basal one-third) below. The first tergite (which with ii. and iii. is posteriorly, medianly notched), covers threefourths of the surface; tergite ii. reaches the edge; the third is on the edge; while tergites iv., v., vi., vii. are all ventral in position. The ovipositor is broad, stout, with strong teeth on the needles and central piece.