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Hofmann, 0. I89I Die Schlaffsucht (Flacherie) der Nonne 

 ( Liparis monacha .) nebst einem Anhang. Insektent8tende 

 Pilze mit besonderer Beruchsichtigung der 'Nonne. 31 pp, 

 P. Weber, Frankfurt a. M. 



v. Tubeuf , C. 1892a Die Krankheiten der Nonne ( Liparis 

 monacha ) . Forstl. naturwissensch. Z. , 1, 3^ _ ^7 , and 



62-79. 

 v. Tubeuf, C. l892"b Weitere Beobachtungen uber die 

 Krankheiten der Nonne. Forstl. Naturwissensch. Z. , 1, 

 277-279- 



Bac 1 llus myco ides Fliigge 



Insects and ticks concerned: The silkworm, Bombyx mori ; 

 the honey bee, Apis mellifera ; Orgyia pudibunda ; Stomoxys 

 calci trans ; Cimex lectularius ; Rhodnius prolixus ; and the 

 ticks, Argas persicus and Qrnithodoros moubata. 



This spore-forming "bacillus was originally described 

 "by Flugge and is widely distributed in the soil, It was 

 in such an association that it was cultivated by Eckstein 

 (189*0 w ho isolated it from soil containing dead larvae 

 of Orgyia pudibunda which had been stored thus for a period 

 of two years, 



White (I906) isolated* Bacterium myco ides from the in- 

 testine of a healthy honey bee. Since the organism he 

 isolated was a spore -former, it was probably Bacillus 

 myco ides . 



Sawamura (1906) lists Bacillus mycoides as artificially 

 pathogenic to the silkworm, Bombyx mori . 



After feeding B. mycoides to Argas persicus , Hindle and 

 Duncan (1925) found that the bacillus neither survived 

 long in the tick nor appeared in its feces. Unlike Bacillus 

 subtilis , B. mycoides was either not or only slightly 

 effected by the bactericidal gut-contents of Argas persicus , 

 Qrnithodoros moubata , Stomoxys calci trans , Cimex lectularius, 

 and Rhodnius prolixus (Duncan, 1926) , 



For a description of this organism see Bergey's Manual, 

 5th edition, p. 66k. 



Duncan, J. T. I926 On a bactericidal principle present 



in the alimentary canal of insects and arachnids. 



Parasitol., 18, 238-252. 

 Eckstein, K. 189^ Untersuchungen iiber die in Raupen 



vorkommenden Bakterien. Z. f . Forst- und Jagdwesen, 



26, 3-20, 228-2^1, 285-298, ^13-^24. 

 Hindle, E. , and Duncan, J. T. 1925 The viability of 



bacteria in Argas persicus . Parasitol. , 17, k^k-kk6 3 



