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The Blood sucking Conorhinus
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The Blood sucking Conorhinus

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IT may interest readers of NATURE to be informed that the great South American bug figured on p. 142 of the issue of August 4 punished Charles Darwin when travelling in the Pampas, happily without infecting him with its trypandsome (see “Journal of a Naturalist”, ed. 1845, p. 330).

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