or wooden covers. Galvanised iron proved the" most satisfactory and 

 cheapest. Wooden covers were often taken and used for firewood, 

 and the copper screens admitted rats. 



Fish were also used. One of the perch family was found to be 

 a voracious destroyer of the larvae, but its habit of jumping 3 or 4 feet 

 out of the water in order to escape led to its replacement by two other 

 native species, which gave good results. 



MoNzioLS (— ) & CoLLiGNON (— ). Quelques Faits cliniques et epide- 

 niiologiques interessants observes a Constantinople au Cours de 

 I'Epidemie de Peste de 1919.— Bulls, el Meins. Soc. Med. Hopitaux 

 de Paris, xxxvi, no. 5-6-7, 26th February 1920, pp. 215-217. 



From October to December 1919 the authors were able to observe 

 44 cases of plague among the civil population of Constantinople. 

 Rats tend to avoid infected foci, and it was found impossible to capture 

 a living specimen in the mill where the epidemic started. All the dead 

 rats found were Mus rattiis. Fleas were present in thousands on the 

 ground and on the sacks of flour. A count gave the following per- 

 centages : Ctenocephaliis canis and C. felis 5, Piilex irritans 25, 

 Xenopsylla cheopis 70. 



DA Matta (A.). Um novo Rediivido do Amazonas : Rhodnius brethesi, 



n. sp. [R. brethesi, a new Reduviid from the Amazons.]— ^4 ma^owas 



Medico, Manaos, no. 7 (ii, no. 3), July-September 1919, 



pp. 93-94, 1 plate. 



The information given here has already been noticed from another 



source [R.A.E., B, vih, 41]. 



DA Matta (A.). Notas para o Estudo da Biologia do Rhodnius brethesi, 

 n. sp. [Notes for the Study of the Biology of R. brethesi.] — 

 Amazonas Medico, Manaos, no. 7 (ii, no. 3), July-September 

 1919, pp. 104-107. 



In the Brazihan forests the Reduviid bug, Rhodnius brethesi, da 

 Matta, is commonly found on a palm [Leopoldina piassaba), which 

 attracts many mammals on account of its fruit and the shelter it 

 affords. Its fibres are put to several uses, and this circumstance 

 brings the bug into contact with man. 



GoLDScHMiDT (W.). Einige Bemerkungen zur Frage der Ophthal- 

 momyiasis. [Some Remarks on the Question of Ophthalmomyiasis. ] 

 — Wiener Klin. Wochenschr., Vienna, xxxii, no. 48, 27th November 

 1919, pp. 1159-1160. (Abstract in Trop. Dis. Bull., London, 

 xvi, no. 2, 15th August 1920, p. 109.) 



The author has observed cases of ophthalmomyiasis, chiefly among 

 children, in Central Asia, due to young maggots of Wohlfartia 

 {Sarcophila) magnifica, a viviparous fly well known in Europe to deposit 

 its larvae in the nasal passages of man. 



FiEBiGER (J.). Zur Frage der Ophthalmomyiasis. [The Question of 

 Ophthalmomyiasis.] — Wiener Klin. Wochenschr., Vienna, xxxiii, 

 no. 5, 29th January 1920, p. 109. 



Recorded cases of larvae of Rhinoestrus purpureus and Oestrus ovis 

 infesting the conjunctival sac of man are referred to in this paper. 



