The following work was done chiefly on material collected during a month's stay at Millport in August 1913 whilst working at the Marine Station. I have to thank Mr Elmhirst for much help in obtaining material and also for giving me the first specimens of the larval Maritrema encysted in Ligia oceanica which he discovered in the genital ducts of that Isopod. This is specially interesting as it is the first undoubted Maritrema larva known.

The larva of Leicester's bamboo-breeding anopheline “asiatica” as Stanton says (1912) has not, been previously described, although Leicester himself mentioned in his monograph that it was characterised by the possession of a very conspicuous black marking on the thorax shaped like a Maltese Cross; so having recently obtained a batch of seven of these creatures from a cut-bamboo at Ginting Simpah, the pass between the Native Malay States of Selangor and Pahang which is at an altitude of 1500 feet, I will attempt to fill the deficiency in our knowledge, adding as well a few notes on the biological side of the subject.

During an investigation, extending over several years, of the blood of numerous animals found locally, I have met with numerous parasites most of which are well known, but some, at least to me, are new.

The following brief notes on the above subject are the outcome of the writer's experience in the use of Trypanblue in cases of piroplasmosis in animals. The inoculations were undertaken under strictly practical conditions in up country districts, and whilst no new discoveries are claimed, it was thought that this short description of the purely utilitarian employment of the drug might prove of interest.

The class Insecta has existed from early Palaeozoic times, developing through the course of the ages into a numerical aggregate of species unknown and unparalleled in any other group of the animal kingdom. At the present day, there is every reason to believe that insect life is more abundant and luxurious than during any pre-existing epoch. With their remarkable adaptations to almost every conceivable environment, their still lengthier persistence on our planet is a matter of the greatest probability. Dr Holland has predicted in a word-picture how the class is destined to be the last to survive when all other forms of animal life have died out. He writes: “When the moon shall have faded from the sky and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over and the ice-cap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole, and no keel shall cut the waters, nor wheels turn in the mills, when all cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe, then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, representing the sole survival of animal life on this, our earth,—a melancholy ‘bug’."

In no part of India, perhaps, are ampler opportunities available for the study of tropical diseases than in the Presidency of Madras. This will be borne out by the fact that quite recently the interesting discovery was made in the Madras Veterinary College Hospital of the existence in these parts of two distinct parasites, causing the protozoal biliary fever among horses. I propose in the course of this article to chronicle the details of my observations with regard to this discovery, feeling sure that they will be read by all Veterinarians with interest, though they may probably arouse a feeling of melancholy among lovers of horse flesh. There is no disguising the fact, that through lack of facilities for prosecuting the study of tropical diseases in Madras the Veterinary Profession has been greatly handicapped. It is therefore with no little satisfaction that we hail the announcement made by Sir Harold Stuart, member of the Executive Council of the Government, at a recent public function in Madras, that at no distant date there would be a fully equipped School of Tropical Medicine in the City.

Since the appearance of the papers by Hadwen and myself dealing with the subject of “Tick Paralysis”, I have had my attention drawn to two interesting papers. The reference to the first paper, by Borthwick (1905), was found whilst compiling Part II of the Bibliography of the Ixodoidea, and secondly, I am indebted to the author, Dr I. U. Temple, of Pendleton, Oregon, for sending me a copy of his valuable contribution. The latter appeared in a journal which will scarcely be accessible to European readers, and I therefore have no hesitation in reprinting the greater part of it below.