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Dr. J. Burton Cleland, of the Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney, New South Wales, has informed us that he has collected Stegomyia fasciata at Grafton, on the North Coast of New South Wales, and that Dr. Dick has taken it at Newcastle, 100 miles from Sydney.

We have, to date, no information concerning its distribution in Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.

It remains still undetected in Tasmania, though we have received several fine collections of mosquitoes from the neighbourhood of Launceston and the West Coast.

Stegomyia scutellaris, Walker, would appear to be a comparatively uncommon mosquito in Australasia. It has, up to now, not been found on the mainland, and we know it from but one locality in New Guinea-the Lakekamu Gold Fields in the Gulf Division of Papua. A closely allied, but very distinct, species, Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris, Theobald, would appear to be much more widely distributed.

LITERATURE.

1. Skuse, F. A. A., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 2nd ser., III., pt. IV., p. 1717,

pl. XL., 1889.

2. Theobald, F. V., Monograph of the Culicidae of the World, I., p. 289, 1901.

3.

Taylor, Frank H., Bulletin of the Northern Territory, No. I., p. 55, 1912.

4.

Summers, Sophia L.M., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 10, No. 56, p. 222, 1912.

5.

Taylor, Frank H., Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health of

Queensland, p. 27, 1912.

6. Elkington, Dr. J. S. C., Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Health

for Queensland, p. II., 1913.

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Translation of Note from the GermAŃ FOREIGN OFFICE OF DECEMBER 30, 1913.

The undersigned has the honour, with reference to the note from the British Chargé d'Affaires of the 2nd September last, to inform His Excellency the British Ambassador that the competent authorities in Germany regret that they are not for the moment in a position to furnish the Imperial Bureau of Entomology with information as to the distribution of mosquitoes generally, and especially of Stegomyia fasciata, in German Colonies in the East. Reference might perhaps be made to the treatises on the subject published in the scientific organs, especially the Archiv für Schiffs-und Tropenhygiene," published in Leipzig by J. E. Barth, and in the medical reports on German Colonies which are forwarded regularly to the British Embassy.

The departments interested would, however, be glad to facilitate, as far as lies in their power, the laudable object of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. The Secretary of State of the Imperial Colonial Office will therefore instruct the Imperial Governors at Rabaul and Daressalaam, as also the Ship and Tropical Diseases Institute ("Institut für Schiffs und Tropenkrankheiten ") at Hamburg, to forward to the Director of the Bureau collections of mosquitoes and any other available materials. Further, the Secretary of State of the Imperial Ministry of Marine will direct the Government of Kiaochow, and the Marine Sanitary Officers concerned, to report on the occurrence of stegomyia.

The undersigned begs to add that the departments concerned would be grateful if they could, in due course, be furnished with the results of the inquiries made by the Bureau of Entomology.

He avails himself of this opportunity, &c.

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VON KOERNER.

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No. 66.

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 10th January, 1914.)

[Answered by No. 67.]

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin, No. 1, Commercial, dated January 2, respecting mosquitoes in German Colonies.

Reference to previous correspondence: Letter from Foreign Office, 4 December,

1913.* Foreign Office,

9 January, 1914.

SIR,

No. 67.

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

Downing Street, 15 January, 1914.

I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant,* transmitting a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin, enclosing a translation of a note from the German Foreign Office respecting the collection of information for the Imperial Bureau of Entomo- 'logy, on the distribution of mosquitoes in German Colonies in the East.

I am to request that Sir Edward Grey will be so good as to cause an expression of Mr. Harcourt's thanks to be conveyed to the German Government for the valuable assistance promised, with an assurance that he will be pleased to furnish, for their information, in due course the results of the enquiries made by the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

&c.,

I am,

H. W. JUST.

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Enclosure in No. 66.

(No. 1, Commercial.)

Berlin, January 2, 1914. SIR,

I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith translation of a note which I have received from the Imperial Foreign Office in reply to a communication which I addressed to the Secretary of State in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch, No. 108, Commercial, of the 29th August last, requesting me to obtain, on behalf of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, full information from the Imperial Government as to the distribution of mosquitoes and stegomyia in their territories in the Far East and in the Pacific.

The Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.G.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.

* No. 57.

I have, &c.,

W. E. GOSCHEN.

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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. 85.]

Downing Street, 22 January, 1914.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 466, of the 17th of November,† and to inform you that I have read with interest the reports by the Government Entomologist and the Chief Medical Officer on the distribution in Fiji of mosquitoes generally, and in particular those of the stegomyia species. Copies of your despatch and its enclosures are being forwarded to the Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology.

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