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SuDLEY (E. W.)- La fievre r6currente malgache. [Relapsing Fever in 

 Madagascar.]— 5i<?^. Soc. Path. ExoL, Paris, ix, no. 9, Sth 

 November 1916,, pp. 688-693. 



The transmitter of the spirochaete causing relapsing fever in Mada- 

 cascar is OrnitJiodorus moubata, which has probably been introduced 

 from East Africa. A company of Senegalese who travelled from 

 Morudava to Majunga were everyone infected by the spirochaete, 

 4\U hough the European officer commanding them, by taking precautions 

 against the bites of 0. motibata, was not attacked. This disease is 

 [uirticularly prevalent on the north-west coast and many cases have 

 been observed among the Senegalese troops, as well as among the 

 indigenous population. 



Jeanselme (E.). Cas de paludisme autochtone contracts en France 

 au contact des troupes indigenes. [A Case of locally acquired 

 Malaria contracted in France through Contact with Native 

 Troops.]— Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, ix, no. 9, 8th November 

 1916, pp. 693-694. [Received 1st December 1916.] 



This paper describes the case of a soldier 24 years of age, born in and 

 living in Paris until the time of his military service, when he was sent 

 to Verdun. On the outbreak of war he served on the Meuse and the 

 f^omme. On 17th September he was sent to hospital at Beauvais. 

 wounded in the head, and 10 or 12 days after admission developed all 

 the symptoms of malaria, having been placed in a room containing 

 natives of Martinique and Annam. During September mosquitos 

 are common in France, and all the necessary conditions for trans- 

 mission were therefore present, especially as the natives were not 

 subjected to methodical treatment with quinine, nor isolated under 

 mosquito-nets. 



Laxgeron (M.). Remarques sur l'6volution larvaire de Theobaldia 

 anmdata (Schrank, 1776). [Remarks on the Larval Stages of 

 Theobaldia amudata.y-BuU. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, ix, no. 9, 

 8th November 1916, pp. 704-708. 



A description is given of the larva of Theobaldia anmdata, which is 

 common in France, and on these characters the author places it with 

 its allied species, T. incidens, T. absobrina and T. consobrina, in a 

 group apart, and quite distinct from the true Cidex, with which it 

 was placed by Christophers. He believes these mosquitos to be more 

 closely allied to Megarhinus and Stegomyia. 



Duke (H. L.). Trypanosomiasis in Northern Uganda.— JZ. of Hygiene, 

 London, xr, no. 3, September 1916, pp. 372-387, 1 maj 

 [Received 24th January 1917.J 

 A trypanosome showing hiarked morphological resemblance to the 

 human parasite, the so-called Trypanosoma rhodesiense, was discovered 

 in 1914 in the blood of a dog which had passed once through the belt 

 of Glossina morsitans south of Masindi. The author therefore pro- 

 ceeded to the Northern Province of Uganda in order to test the 

 hypothesis put forward by Miss Robertson in her report that this 

 organism is a recent introduction into that district. 

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