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The Union Government has agreed to support the plan suggested by 

 the Imperial Government to have the bionomics of tsetse-flies studied on 

 common lines by special entomologists stationed in suitable localities 

 in six widely separated fly belts. It is proposed that the work of the 

 various stations should be co-ordinated through the Imperial Bureau 

 of Entomology, London, and each station should be kept informed of 

 the progress made at the others. These investigations are expected 

 to extend over five years. The Union Government has undertaken 

 to carry out investigations according to this plan in Zululand at its 

 sole expense, l:)esides contributing annually to the common fund for 

 general purjx)ses. 



Britt! X (H). Siphonaptera. Records in the Counties of Cumber- 

 land, Westmorland, Lancashire and Cheshhe.— Lancashire and 



Cheshire Naturalist, Manchester, xii, no. 5-6, No\-ember-Dcccmber 

 1920, pp. 100-105. 



The species dealt with include -.—Pulex irritans, L., on dogs, badger 

 and fox ; Archaeopsylla erinacei, Bch., on hedgehogs ; Spilopsylhis 

 cuniciili. Dale, on' rabbits, hares and small carnivora, and from a 

 starling's nest ; Ccraiophvllus gallinulae. Dale, abundant in robins' 

 and blackbirds' nests ; C'slyx, Roths., from nests of sand-martins and 

 the dipper ; C. hirundinis, Curt., in nests of house-martin ; C. garci, 

 Roths., abundant in nests of hawks and other birds ; C. gallinae, 

 Schr., abundant on poultry and other birds ; C. fringillae. Wlk., 

 found in sparrows' nests and nests of carrion crow ; C. fasciatus, 

 Bosc, found chiefly on small animals such as moles, rats, etc. ; C. 

 sciurormn, Schr., found in nests of squirrels and dormice; C. peni- 

 cilliger, Grube, chiefly on voles ; C. italkcri, Roths., in \oles' and 

 moles' nests ; C. mustelae. Dale, on voles, mice and stoats ; Ctenoph- 

 Ihalmns agvrtes, Hell., on nearly all small animals ; Rhadinopsylla 

 pentacanthits, Roths., on stoat and weasel ; Doratcpsylla dasycncmus, 

 RoLhs., on brown rats ; Palaeopsylla minor, Dale, abundant on moles 

 and other small animals ; Leptopsylla musciili. Dug., abundant on 

 house mice ; L. spectabilis, Roths., on stoats ; Hystrichopsylla 

 talpae. Curt., abundant on moles ; and Isclinopsylla simplex. Roths., 

 and /. hexactenus, Kolen., on bats. 



Tick Control. — J I. Jamaica Agric. Soc, Kingston, xxiv, no. 9-11, 

 September-November 1920, pp. 315-316. 



A copy is given of " The Tick (Control and Eradication) Law, 

 1920." This law empowers the Governor in Privy Council to issue 

 orders for the treatment, by any means thought desirable, of cattle 

 (including equines), and for the construction of dipping tanks ; and 

 to prohibit the removal of cattle from any given area. The orders 

 may refer to the whole Island or any part of it. 



As a general rule tanks are to be paid for by the owner of the holding 

 on which they are made, and rented by the occupier at 10 per cent, 

 of the cost, oV alternatively paid for by the occupier, the cost being 

 refunded by the owner if the latter is bound by the law to construct 

 the tank. 



Officials may be appointed to inspect cattle and to see that the 

 provisions of the law are being carried out. 



