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Herpetomoniasis can be induced in birds by feeding them on insects 

 containing Herpetomonads. H. cnlicis from Cidex pipiens and 

 H. jaculum from Nepa. cinerea fatally infected birds which were fed 

 on them. The disease induced may run an acute or a chronic course. 

 In acute cases the flagellate form of the parasite was the more obvious 

 at death ; in chronic cases non-flagellate forms were more numerous. 

 Natural herpetomoniasis of a pigeon has been recorded in Algeria. 

 The flagellate stage of Leishmania donovani in vertebrates is now 

 known, thus completing the evidence that a Leishmania is morpho- 

 logically a Herpetomonas. 



Lloyd (LI.). On the Association of Warthog and the Nkufu Tick 



{Ornithodoms moubata). — Ann. Trop. Med. Parasit., Liverpool, ix, 

 no. 4, 30th December 1915, pp. 559-560. 



Observations on 0. moubata were made during searches for the 

 pupae of G. 7norsitans near Hargreaves, Luangwa Valley, N. Khodesia. 

 A native who had been sent into a warthog burrow to obtain loose 

 soil for examination, was attacked by ticks, with which the burrow 

 was infested. The ticks were in various larval stages. This tick has 

 been suggested as a possible carrier of Trypanosoma rhodesiense. The 

 burrow in which the ticks were found was separated by a river from 

 a deserted rubber plantation, and the nearest village, from which this 

 tick was said to be absent, was four miles distant. At Mwenga, 

 N. Rhodesia, a specimen of 0. moubata was removed from a warthog. 

 The animal is possibly of importance as a distributing agent of the 

 tick and should not be overlooked in prophylactic measures against 

 relapsing fever. 



Wood (J. Y.). Malaria in Koinadugu District, with special Reference 

 f'^ to Kaballa, the District Headquarters, 1914. — Ann. Rept. Medical 



Dept., Sierra Leone, for the year ending 31st December 1914, 

 London, 1915, pp. 37-41. [Received 12th January 1916.] 



Malaria is common in the Koinadugu District, the subtertian tj-pe 

 being generally met with. The commonest carriers were Anopheles 

 costalis and A.funestus, and possibly also A. rhodesiensis. Examination 

 of three swamps in the Kaballa valley showed that breeding in these 

 situations was not extensive, but was confined to certain portions, 

 which may be due to the presence of certain fish, of which a species 

 of Barbus was the most active in destroying lar\^ae. Another fish, 

 Fiindulus gardneri, was obser^^ed to feed on eggs, larvae and pupae 

 of Cidex. 



^ Entomological Reports. — Ann. Rept. Medical Dept., Sierra Leone, for 

 ' ' the year ending 31st December 1914, London, 1915, pp. 51-53. 



[Received 12th January 1916.] 



An investigation was made during the rains of the mosquitos and 

 their breeding places to be found at Hill Station. The following 

 were collected :— («) In rock pools : Anopheles costalis, Lw., Stegomyia 

 sugens, Wied. ; Ochlerotatus apicoanmdatus, Edw. ; 0. minutus, Theo. 

 (6) In hollows in trees : C^dex decens, Theo. ; 0. si^nidans. Cart. ; 

 O. apicoanmdatus, Edw. ; Stegomyia sp. ; S. fasciata, F. (c) In iron 

 pipes and tins : S, fasciata: C. decens. 



