ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1914. 



Prevention of Insect-borne Diseases in the Army in Mexico. 



An Associated Press despatch to the daily newspapers, dated 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 7, 1914, states that Surgeon G. M. 

 Guiteras, medical officer of that port under the American occu- 

 pation, has planned a campaign against flies in order to safe- 

 guard the public and the army against typhoid fever. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, in his book The House Fly Disease 

 Carrier, sums up the ravages of typhoid in the American army 

 during the Spanish War of 1898 as follows : 



Every regiment in the United States service developed typhoid 



fever All encampments located in the Northern as well as in the 



Southern States exhibited typhoid in epidemic form Infected 



water was not an important factor in the spread of typhoid in the 

 national encampments of 1898, but about one-fifth of the soldiers 

 in the national encampments in the United States during that summer 

 developed this disease, while more than eighty per cent, of the total 

 deaths were caused by typhoid. (Pp. 118, 119). 



[And quoting from the report of the Army Typhoid Commission:] 

 "Flies undoubtedly served as carriers of the infection." (P. 117). 



Entomologists look to the American Army to make a much 

 better showing in its Mexican experience. It is to be hoped 

 that, whatever that showing may be, it will not be without im- 

 portant effect on the community at large in causing the non- 

 entomological public to realize the influence of insects on 



human health. 







Smicra mariae Riley (Hym.) 



On May 3, 1900, a number of individuals of this species were reared 

 from the cocoons of the bagworm, Thyridopteryx ephcmeraeformis 

 Haworth, taken at Annapolis, Maryland; also May 4, 1901. A. A. 

 GlRAULT. 



Epargyreus tityrus Fabricius in Maryland (Lepid.) 

 This common butterfly was very common on the wing in Anne 

 Arundel County the first two weeks in August, 1900. They seemed 

 to have gone by the last of the month since it was noted on August 

 26 that none could be found (Baltimore County). I am indebted to 

 Dr. Henry Skinner for its identification. A. A. GIRAUI.T. 



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