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J,63-'j3.'h pfs. 3). — This siccoimt of the grape-beny moths deals with their biology 

 and remedial measures, including insecticides, mechanical and physical means, 

 insect enemies, and fnngns diseases. A bibliography of 90 titles is appended. 



Revision of Australian Tortricina, B. Meyrick {Proc. Linn. 8oc. N. 8. Wales, 

 35 (19 JO), pt. 1, pp. 130-29 >i; 36 (1911), pt. 2, pp. 224-303) .—fieveatj genera 

 and 443 species are here described, many of which are new to science. Indexes 

 to the generic and specific names are included. 



Experiments on overwintering pupae of Lepidoptera, W. Reiff (Zischr. 

 Wiss. Imelctcnhiol., 7 (1911), Nos. 5-6, pp. 156-159; 7-8, pp. 235-231; 9, pp. 

 267-270; 10, pp. 308-312; 11, pp. 3^ 3-3// 7). —The species, studies of which are 

 here reiwrted, include Puptlio glauciis tiirmis, P. troUus, P. thoas crcsphontcx, P. 

 polyxcnes, Samia cccropia, Telca polyphemus, Basilona imperialis, P. inacJmon, 

 and Hyles (Dcilephila) euphorhUe. 



Experiments were conducted to determine the effect of (1) exposure to 

 various temperatures and (2) impregnation with a mixture of sugar and gum 

 arable with and without silver nitrate. ]Sotes by C. T. Brues on the parasites, 

 Diiiotomus exesorius and D. cccruleator, that were reared during the experi- 

 ments, are appended. 



Note on Leishmania and mosquitoes: The Leishm.ania donovani can live 

 and develop in the intestinal tract of the Anopheles, G. Franchini {Lancet 

 [London^, 1911, II, No. 19, pp. 1268, 1269, figs. J;2).— The author here reports 

 briefly the studies which have led him to conclude that L. donovani can de- 

 velop in the intestinal tract of Anopheles. 



The sand-fly and pellagra, S. J. Hunter (Jour. Anier. Med. Assoc., 58 (1912), 

 No. 8, pp. 5'i7, 5.'f8). — A paper presented before the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists, at Washington, D. C, in December, 1911. 



On August 1, 1911, the author commenced a survey of the region about 

 Oswego, where in July the first authentic cases of pellagra in Kansas were 

 diagnosed. Simuliiivi vittatum is said to be the only species as yet found in 

 the State. Thus far it has been found distributed in Kansas along Turkey 

 Creek, a tributary of the Kaw in Wyandotte County, along the Marais-des- 

 Cygues in Franklin County, along the Neosho and its tributaries in Labette 

 County, and along the Arkansas in Sedgwick County, the most western point 

 at which it has been found. A careful survey of the southwestern part of the 

 State. has thus far revealed no breeding places for adult forms of this insect. 

 It is stated that the survey will be continued until the entire State has been 

 covered. 



Experimental attempts were made to transmit the disease from a human, case 

 to 10 guinea pigs and 2 monkeys, 499 live flies being exposed to the pellagrin 

 and then to the guinea pigs, and 197 to the pellagrin and then to the monkeys. 

 Of 488 specimens counted, 219 were females, which alone bite. Studies of the 

 brain and spinal cord of a monkey, suspected of having contracted the disease, 

 are now under way. 



Phlebotomus papatasii and pappataci fever in South America. C. Tira- 

 BoscHi (Arch. Par., U (1910), No. 2, pp. 330-331,).— In. recording the occur- 

 rence of P. papatasii in the State of Para, Brazil, the author takes the oppor- 

 tunity to review the present status of knowledge as to this fly and the disease 

 which it transmits. The disease, which is known to be due to a filterable virus, 

 is thought to be hereditarily transmitted in the fly. Whether or not the 

 disease occurs in Brazil remains to be determine!!. 



[Transmissioaa of Trsrpanosoma hippicum by Musca domestical (Rpt. Dept. 

 Sanit. Isthmian Canal Com., 1911, Dec, jjp. J,2, //S ) .— Exi)eriments conducted in 

 which the house fly was fed for 3 or 4 minutes on blood from an infected 

 guinea pig and then, after an interval of about 30 seconds, placed over the 



