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The second series of experiments carried out was with oil of cajeput, 

 oil of anise, and oil of sassafras, the first-named being the most rapid 

 in its action. Further experiments showed that the addition of 

 naphthaline to the above oils hastened their action. 



3. VisHNjAKov (Th. A.)- MacjitflOBaHie BninHia HtnoTopbix-b iviaTe- 

 piajioB-b, MoryiuMX'b 6biTb ynorpeOnfieivibiMM npH Momt 6tnbfl 

 Bi> pacTBopt cb BOAOH Ha HiMSHeHHOCTb B3pocnbixi> nnaTflHbix-b 

 BUJeil. [Investigations on the effect of various substances likely 

 to be employed in water, when washing linen, on the vitality of 

 adult clothes lice], pp. 179-183. 



The author has experimented on the effects of soda, borax, boric 

 and salicylic acids on lice, all of which substances are likely to be used 

 when wasting linen. The experiments were conducted at 60° to 63° F., 

 ;ind consisted in submerging the lice for some time in glasses containing 

 the above solutions. It was found, however, that only submersion 

 for 48 hours in saturated solutions of soda or for 8 hours in saturated 

 .solutions of salicylic acid were harmful to the parasites. Other 

 experiments showed that the most effective solutions against lice are 

 I per cent, and 5 per cent, solutions of pure and white birch tar, 

 a 1 per cent, solution of creohn, and 1 per cent, and 10 per cent, 

 solutions of crude eau-de-javelle. 



PORTCHINSKY (I. A.). flo MHiepeCHOMy, HO MailO MSCntflOBaHHOWiy 

 BOnpocy CBOMCTBaxi» WynKa XMmHMKa Paederus fuscipes, Curt. 

 [About the interesting, but little investigated question of the 

 habits of Paederus fuscipes, Curt.] — «JlK)6MTenb npMpOflbl.» 

 [Friend of Nature], Petrograd, no. 12, December 1915, pp. 364-366. 



The author refers to the occurrence of the Staphylinid, Paederus 

 columbinus, in Brazil, and of P. fuscipes, Curtis, in Astrachan [see this 

 Review, Series B, iii, p. 68], and urges further investigation into the 

 poisonous qualities of these insects, especially as regards the method 

 of ejection and the nature of the irritant liquid. 



RoBERG (D. N.). i. The R61e played by the Insects of the Dipterous 

 Family Phoridae In Relation to the Spread of Bacterial Infections, 

 ii. Experiments on Aphiochaetaferrvginea, Brunetti, with the Cholera 

 Vibrio. — PMippine Jl. Sci., Manila, x. Sec. B., no. 5, September 

 1915, pp. 309-336. [Received 27th January 1916.] 



The experiments recorded in this paper were undertaken in order 

 to determine whether Aphiochaeta ferruglnea, Brunetti, is a carrier of 

 disease and whether, if such is the case, it can be considered as f\ 



important as Musca domestica, Stomoxys ealcitrans, Lucilia, etc. / ^ 



Complete life-histories of members of the family Phoridae have 

 been worked out in very few cases. Those species which have been 

 reared have been bred on fungi and dead or decaying vegetable or 

 animal matter. Some have been reared from snails and a few from 

 bees, ants, or beetles. Conicera atia, Mg., Phora aterrima, F., Tru- 

 pheoneura opaca, Mg., T. trinervis, Beck., T. perennis, Mg., Dohrniphora 

 abdominaUs, Fall., ChaetoneuropJiora caliginosa, Mg., and C. oru 

 curvimrvis, Becker, have been obtained from decaying animal matter. 



