Flying Insects from the Rectum

Sir,?With reference to the letter of Babu A. C. De, L.m.s., in the Indian Medical Gazette of August last, and that of Babu S. C. Sen, l.m.s., in the current issue, I feel myself interested to inform you of my experience, which may help to take further steps in the matter. In the month of November, 1916, I found three cases here?one Bengali Babu (named Jadunath Sirkar, Hoolarhat P. O., Bakerganj Dist.), aged about 40 years, and his two children, aged 6 and 4 years, respectively. The flying insects were of the same quality as already reported by the above-mentioned gentlemen. It may give also some new light to the readers to know that the elderly man was then suffering from black-water fever and the children were living in the same room; and the insects