Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Discussion on Parasites of Bats (S102a: 1864)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Untitled description of discussion at the 4 July 1864
meeting of the Entomological Society of London, printed later that year on page 32 of the
Society's Journal of Proceedings series. To link directly to this page, connect with:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S102A.htm
Prof. Westwood directed attention to a paper in the second part of the 'Horæ Societatis
Entomologicæ Rossicæ' on the parasites of bats: not only were several species of Pulicidæ and of
Nycteribia enumerated, but also species allied to the latter, yet differing so much in structure as to
necessitate the creation of new genera (or sub-genera); he might remind the members present of
the extraordinary mode of transformation of Nycteribia, the larva state being passed within the
egg, which was not extruded from the body of the female until after the pupa state had
commenced.
Mr. A. R. Wallace mentioned that he had found Nycteribiæ in the tropics, but not in large
numbers, though probably a sufficient examination would show that each species of bat was
infested with its own peculiar species of Nycteribia.
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