[A case of external human ophthalmomyiasis by Oestrus ovis in Toulouse (France)].

We report a case of external human ophthalmomyiasis by OEstrus ovis was observed in a child living in southwestern France. The patient was contaminated on the playground of a school in a suburban village near Toulouse. Eleven first stage larvae were extracted from the eye.

[Two cases of inexplicable autochthonous malaria in Toulouse, France].

Malaria involving both Plasmodium falciparum and vivax was observed in two patients hospitalized in the same room of the Cardiology Department of the Purpan University Hospital in Toulouse, France. One patient was in coma without fever by the time of diagnosis. None of the patients had traveled to malaria areas within the last 33 years.

[Larval chaetotaxy of the maculipennis complex (Diptera-Culicidae) in the Toulouse region].

The atroparvus larval population on the whole is not significantly different from that of Montpellier (France) and Portugal; on the other hand there is a highly significant difference with the populations of Germany and England. The typicus population does not differ significantly from that of Montpellier, but there is a significant difference with the population of Albany. The authors show that the larval chetotaxy is a feeble character for the taxonomy, at least when atroparvus, typicus and messeae coexist.

[Synopsis of a four-year research on the "maculipennis" complex (author's transl)].

The authors have carry out during four summers a study of the "maculipennis complex" on the Languedoc-Roussillon coast line. They have determined three sibling species: Anopheles maculipennis subalpinus (very abundant, with an important eggs ornementation' poly-morphism), Anopheles maculipennis maculipennis (found only once in that region) and Anopheles maculipennis atroparvus found only the last year of our research.

[Inventory of the Culcinae in Balagne (Corsica)].

We have drawn up the faunistic inventory of Culicinae in Balagne (Corsica) in late summer. The list shows the following species (in order of frequency): Culex hortensis, Culex pipiens, Culex impudicus, Culex territans (?), Culiseta longiareolata, Culiseta annulata, Culiseta subochrea, Aedes mariae, Aedes caspius, Aedes vexans, Anopheles claviger, Anopheles maculipennis. We have observed the important recession of the maculipennis complex (only one female catched indoor) and the abundance of Anopheles claviger founded in underground resting places from the sea level up to the mountains.

[Dynamics of populations in an urban and underground resting place of Culex pipiens L. (Diptera, Culicidae) (author's transl)].

An urban and underground resting place of Culex pipiens has been examinated during one year. Many females (28% in September, 70% in January) do not find sexual partners. The cause is a mixing of autogenous and anautogenous forms in the place even if it seems perfectly closed.