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I BEG to thank Dr. Gahan and Dr. Stenton for their notes on this insect in NATURE of November 24, p. 403. I am well aware of the importance of precision in recording the behaviour of any animal and any other natural phenomenon; wherefore I was specially careful to ascertain from the persons who had been stung by Ophion in my house whether the insects had received any provocation. In most of the cases brought to my notice (numbering three or four in each of the last five years) the person stung was asleep, and may semi-consciously have made some movement that irritated the fly. But in the case I mentioned as happening last August, the young lady was reading in bed and felt the sharp stab on her arm before she saw the fly.
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MAXWELL, H. Ophion luteus. Nature 108, 436 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108436a0
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