ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES ON FIELD SERVlCE
IN WAZIRISTAN.
BY
Major J. A. SINTON, m.d. i.m.s.,
I'lixli'iir I iisliliil", K(iis(tuU. [Ki-Cfiviil for publication. Ainil i4, lOi'l.l
While on field service in the Waziristan ca7ii})aignB of 1917 and iyi9-1920. I had the opportunity of collecting a nuniher of ' .siindfiies ' and mosquitoes from this area of the North-West Frontier Province.
As this i)art of India is notorious for the amount of malaria which occurs there, and as Pajiijataci Fever and ' Oriental Sore are also prevalent diseases, the following notes on the occurrence of some si)ecie8 of phlebotomi and anophelines may be of use to other workers in those regions. Phueboto-mi. During the summer and autunm of 1919 and the spring of 1920 I collected 736 specimens of this genus from the Waziristan area. (1) Species of Phlebolomus. The specimena included P. papatasii, P. minulus, P. ntinulus var. anlennatus and P. sergenti. The number of specimens of each species is shown in the following table :— .S| ecies. f. pupalueii. /'. mii'Hlui,. r. miiiuUt Vttr. antenniitus. 6 9 t> 1 loUl. Sex Nuinlx-r 6 ? 102 ISO 6 i ■2r>.; U!i 404 6 9 lU IS 6 9 ToTil. . . 288 39-13 37 7 730 TuTAL PER CEST 64-90 S-02 OM 100 ( 575 )
