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WITH reference to Drs. Adler and Theodor's note entitled “Infection of Phlebotomies perniciosus Newstead with Leishmania infantum”, published in NATURE of Sept. 20, I would like to add that the insect concerned has not as yet been recognised as a distinct species, but only as a variety of Phlebotomus major Ann. Mr. E. Brunetti1 (1912) remarks in this connexion as follows: P. major var. perniciosus Newstead, “A form described by Newstead as a distinct species from Malta is, according to Dr. Annandale, only a variety of P. major, an opinion in which I am inclined to concur, there being no difference in either the venation or the male genitalia”. Sinton2 (1928) supports the same view.
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Brunetti, E., "The Fauna of British India" (Diptera, Nematocera"), p. 211; 1912.
Sinton, J. A., Ind. Jour. Med. Res., 16, 2, pp. 303–305; 1928.
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MUKERJI, S. Transmission of Infantile Kala-azar. Nature 126, 957–958 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126957c0
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