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taken from each place, and in some cases the larvæ are too immature to breed out successfully under the artificial conditions necessary to this work. The result of this is that the number of adults bred out from any particular sample varies from one specimen up to 32 specimens, but is always limited.
The distribution of Stegomyia fasciata in Kowloon, as far as known up to the 31st August, is shown in the attached plan. To this must be added three finds in Victoria; once each in Wellington Street, Jervois Street, and Des Voeux Road West.
(2) The Investigation of Hong Kong Mosquitoes other than Stegomyia.-This is being continued, and less than a half of the mosquitoes bred out have so far been definitely classified.
12,731 specimens have, however, been reported on by the Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, who confirms in all respects the provisional classification of the anophelines made here.
The following list gives the names of the anophelines and culicines so far deter- mined. All those marked with an asterisk are new to Hong Kong, and the three species, Uranotaenia macfarlanei, Edw., Ochlerotatus macfarlanei, Edw., and Culex virgapites, Edw., are entirely new.
Twenty-four species have, therefore, been added to the eight named species of Dr. Thomson's Report:
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*Anophelines indiensis, Theo.
jeyporiensis, Theo.
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karwari, James.
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maculatus, Theo.
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minimus, Theo.
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Var.
Var.
rossi, Theo., Var. indefinatus, Ludl. sinensis, Theo.
tesselatus, Theo.
Armigeres obturans, Walk.
*Culex bitaniorynchus, Giles
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concolor, R. D.
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27
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fatigans, Wied.
Var. domesticus, Leic.
fuscocephalus, Theo.
mimeticus, Noe.
sinensis, Theo.
sitiens, Wied.
tritæniorynchus, Giles.
virgapites, Edw., sp. nov.
vishnui, Theo.
*Culiciomyia pallidothorax, Theo.
*Ficalbia minima, Theo.
*Lophoceratomyia minutissima, Theo.
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rubithoracis, Leic.
*Mansonioides uniformis, Theo.
*Micraedes malayi, Leic.
*Ochlerotatus greeni, Theo.
"macfarlanei, Edw., sp. nov.
*Uranotœnia macfarlanei, Edw., sp. nov.
Stegomyia scutellaris, Walk.
fasciata, F.
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W. alba, Theo.
(3) Including all kinds of mosquito larvæ, over 13,000 different samples have now been collected, and from these over 35,000 adult mosquitoes have been bred out and pinned.
21,700 out of the 35,000 pinned specimens have already been forwarded to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, British Museum, and approximately 12,000 of these have already been reported on by the Bureau, with the result given under section 2.
† Not sent to the Colonial Office.
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The remainder will be partly dealt with here, and what cannot be satisfactorily worked out will be forwarded in due course to the Bureau.
HAROLD MACFARLANE,
31st August, 1914.
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SIR,
No. 131. MAURITIUS.
Government Bacteriologist.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received November 4, 1914.)
(No. 299.)
Government House, Port Louis, 18th September, 1914.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch of the 29th May last,* with regard to a proposal submitted by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology that the official Entomologists of the Empire should be invited to a Conference in London during the latter part of July, 1915.
2. I regret that it will not be possible for a technical officer of the Agricultural Department of the Colony to attend the proposed Conference.
3. With regard to the list of subjects intended to be discussed at the Con- ference, I enclose a copy of Bulletin No. 2,† issued by the Department of Agriculture, which contains a summary of the existing protective legislation against plant pests. This might, perhaps, be communicated to the Conference.
In order to supplement this bulletin, and to define the policy adopted in the Colony, the Department of Agriculture will submit a brief report on animal para- sites, plant pests, and fungoid diseases imported into the Colony, which will be transmitted to you as soon as completed.
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No. 132.
I have, &c.,
J. MIDDLETON.
ON
MINUTES OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, AT 12 NOON, WEDNESDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER, 1014.
PRESENT:
Dr. SHIPLEY (Chairman).
Dr. BAGSHAWE,
Dr. HARMER. Professor LEFROY.
Sir JOHN MCCALL, Dr. MACDOUGALL. Professor NUTTALL,
Sir DAVID PRAIN.
Mr. READ.
Sir STEWART STOCKMAN,
Mr. MARSHALL.
Mr. NEAVE.
Mr. PARKINSON.
1.
In the absence of the Earl of Cromer, Dr. Shipley took the Chair.
2.
The minutes of the nineteenth general meetingt were approved.
3. The report of the Director§ for the previous six months was received, Mr. Marshall commented on a few points mentioned in his report, explaining
that, so far as the Bureau was concerned, the war had in no way lessened the work. Except from Germany, Austria, and Belgium, the usual foreign publications for
• No. 82.
↑ Not reprinted.
‡ No. 80.
Annexure.
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