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patient is probably not infectious after the third day. The evidence 

 as to Pamplasma flavigenum being the causal agent is discussed at 

 length, and the report ends with the conclusion that no proof has been 

 given that these bodies are of a Protozoal nature and that a number of 

 microscopic objects are included under the name. There is as yet no 

 reason to regard any of these as the cause of yellow fever, and the 

 nature of the virus of this disease still remains undetermined. 



Sinclair (J. M.) Veterinary Report. — Rhodesia Agric. Jl., Salisburg, 

 xiii, no. 3, June 1916, pp. 400-402. 



During March and April, fresh outbreaks of African coast fever were 

 reported from the Melsetter District in Rhodesia. In the latter month 

 blood smears from donkeys working in the Hartley District showed 

 the presence of Trypanosoma brucei var. rhodesiense. The affected 

 animals were destroyed. A number of cattle in the Gwelo district 

 ;showed trypanosomes. No species of Glossina has been found ^\dthin 

 40 miles of the infected area and it is therefore suggested that some 

 other carrier may have transmitted the disease from animals which 

 had previously passed through an infected district. 



O'Dea (M. E.). Annual Report on the Veterinary Department for the 

 "^ Year 1915.— Accra, Gold Coast, 1916, 8 pp., 3 tables. [Received 



18th July 1916.] 



No tsetse-flies were observed in Kumasi during the year, but it is 

 possible that in the near future they may be brought in with cattle 

 which pass through the fly-belts before reaching the town. About 90 

 per cent, of these animals show the presence of trypanosomes in the 

 blood. Tabanids occur in small numbers and Stomoxys is found in 

 or near stables in which horses are kept. 



Wagner (J.). KTj noSHaHim (J)ayHbI KaBKasCKMXlj Suctoria. [Con- 

 tribution to a fauna of Caucasian Suctoria.] — « MsB'EcTifl 

 KaBKasCKaro IVIy3efl.» [Bulletins of the Caucasian Museum], 

 Tifiis, X, no. 1, 1916, pp. 54-64, 8 figs. 



The following list of fleas is given : — Pidex irritans, L., found both 

 in Caucasia and in Persia ; Archaeopsylla (Ctenocephalus) erinacei, 

 Bch., on Erinaceus sp. ; CtenocepJialus felis, Bch., on lynx in Persia ; 

 C. canis. Curt., on Vulpes alpherakyi ; Ceratophjllus columbae, Gerv., 

 on owls ; Amphipsylla schelkovnikovi, Wagn., on Microtus sp. ; 

 Ctenojyhthalmus spalacis, Rothsch., on Spalax microp>ht]ialmus ; 

 C. inornatus, sp. n., on Prometheomys schlaposchnikovi ; and Hystri- 

 cliopsylla satunini, sp. n., and Vermipsylla hyaenae, Kol., on Hyaena 

 vidgaris. 



It is pointed out that the males of A. schelkovnikovi closely resemble 

 those of A. certa, Rothsch., and it is considered probable that the latter 

 is only a local variety of the former. 



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