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May after the rains and before the bush fires. The absence of outbreaks 

 due to Glossina morsitans during the past season appear to indicate 

 that the fly area has receded in this district. 



It is considered probable that G. brevipalpis has a far wider 

 distribution at Mlanje than is at present kno\^^l. 



DE Peyerimhoff (P.). Ceratopogou {Dipt. Chironomidae) et Meloe 

 (Col. Meloidae). — Bull. Soc. Entom. France, Paris, no. 15, 

 10th October 1917, pp. 250-253. 



Articles dealing with Ceeatopogoninae sucking the blood of 

 caterpillars and of other insects have already been noticed [see this 

 Review, Ser. B, ii, pp. 132 and 204]. Records of Ceratopogon sp. sucking 

 the blood of Culicidae have been received from India in the case of 

 Cidex fatigans, and three species of Anopheles, the females of which, 

 gorged with human blood, each bore two parasites. In Lower Burma 

 Anopheles fuUginosus is heavily parasitised, the degree of 6 per cent., 

 established by count, being probably far below the actual figure. 



During two successive years the author has observed the large 

 Cantharrd beetle, Meloe ma.jalis, L., to be attacked by females of 

 Ceratopogon sp., which puncture the abdomen and become distended 

 with the yellowish fluid that all these beetles emit so readily. The 

 Ceratopogoninae that attack mammals can evidently, like the 

 Culicidae, carry and transmit to their victims morbid micro- 

 organisms. Though no observations yet permit of this role being 

 assigned to them in medical entomology, they are suspected vectors, 

 and that being so, there is also a possibility of their transmitting 

 organisms to Arthropods. For the verification of this point Meloe 

 would afford ideal material OAving to its large size, the ease with which 

 it can be kept and fed in captivity, its abundance at certain seasons and 

 its habits, which allow of renewed samples of blood being obtained 

 without killing the insect. 



Notes V§t6rinaires. — YieAgric. et Eur.. Paris, vii, no. 50, 15th December 

 1917, p. 428. 



For follicular mange on dogs applications are recommended of an 

 ointment consisting of 1 pari: carbolic acid, 2 parts camphor and 6 parts 

 white vaseline. This should be applied each day, one-fourth part of 

 the dog's body being treated on each occasion. After four days a 

 tepid bath of 2 per cent, potassium pentasulphide should be given, 

 and the treatment generally requires 9 to 16 days. 



Lice on horses can be destroyed by a solution of 5 lb. soft potash- 

 soap in 25 gals, water, to which 2 gals, hypochlorite of soda (Eau de 

 Javelle) is added immediately before use. This wash should be 

 applied all over the animal and rubbed well into the skin, at a tem- 

 perature as hot as the hand can bear. A better plan is to pass the 

 animal through a bath containing this mixture. After one apphcation 

 practically all the parasites present emerge from the skin and die 

 almost immediately. The solution appears to have no eft'ect upon the 

 epidermis of the horse and is recommended for its economy, its 

 cleanliness and safety, and for its efficiency against both the eggs and 

 the adults. 



