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Top Minnows as Yellow Fever ETSi6.ica,tovs}r^Sa)::}tce, LciAcasiei} Pa. 

 Vm, no. 1375, 6lh May 1921, pp. 432-1^1 ^ / 



In view of the success that has attended the\^^M rt^p y^^^^ndw 

 {Gambusia) in eradicating malarial rnosquitos in vafiows-^Ttsof the 

 United States, this method has been adopted for the eradication of 

 the yellow fever mosquito [Stegomyia fasciata] at Tampico, Mexico, 

 in preference to oiling. 



DE Stefaxi (T.). Importanza dell'Entomologia applicata nell' 

 Economia sociale. Entomologia legale e del Cadaveri. [The 

 Importance of Applied Entomology in Social Economy. Legal 

 Entomology in relation to Dead Bodies.] — Allevamenti, Palermo, 

 ii, no. 3, i.st May 1921, pp. 131-133. 



Dead bodies are attacked by different series of insects, each of 

 which appears at a given stage of decomposition, a fact of practical 

 value in legal questions. 



The first to appear are Musca domestica, Muscina {Cyrtoneura) 

 stabulans and CalUphora vomitoria. These are followed by Lucilia 

 caesar, Sarcophaga carnaria, S. arvensis and S. laticnis. A third 

 series, appearing at the butyric stage of fermentation, includes the 

 Coleoptera, Dermestes lardarius, D. fritschii and D. undulatus, and 

 a moth, Aglossa pinguinalis. A fourth, casein, phase of 

 fermentation attracts a new group of Diptera, including Piophila 

 casei [cheese maggot] and Anthomyia spp. ; the latter only occur in 

 the country and never in towns, so that their presence may indicate 

 the locality where death took place. This fourth group also includes 

 small beetles of the genus Corynetcs, such as C. yuficollis and C. 

 coerulens. 



Ammoniacal fermentation follows, attracting the flies Tyreophora 

 cvnophila, T. furcata, T. anthropophaga, Lonchaea nigrimana, Ophyra 

 cadaverina and Phora aterrima, and Coleoptera such as Necrophorus 

 fossor, Silpha littoralis, S. obscura, Hister cadaverinus and Saprinns 

 rotundatiis. The larvae of the insects of this last group are those 

 specially engaged in reducing the remains to dust. Quite apart from 

 the groups mentioned are the Acari, which appear at the same time 

 and the action of which tends to mummify the body without 

 decomposition. They include Uropoda nummidaria, Trachynotus 

 cadavericus, Glyciphagits cursor, G. spinipes, Tyroglyphus spp., Serrator 

 spp. and Coepophagus spp. The mummified or partly mummitied 

 body attracts certain species of Dermestes, Attagenus and Anthrenus, 

 and such Lepidoptera as Aglossa pinguinalis, A. cuprealis, 

 Tinea pellionella and Tineola biselliella. The very last fragments 

 are attacked by the larvae of two Coleoptera, Tenebrio obscurus and 

 Ptinus brunneus. 



A number of cases are instanced where the presence of insects 

 enabled the time and place of death to be ascertained. 



Cura da "Peste das Gallinhas " ou Espiroquetose. [The Cure of 

 Spirochaetosis in Fowls.] — Chacaras e Quintaes, S. Paulo, xxih, 

 no. 4, 15th April 1921, p. 296, 1 fig. 



This popular article contains data on the tick, Argas persicus 

 iminiatus), which is the vector of spirochaetosis in fowls. 



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