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RiECK ( — ). Ein transportabler Entlausungskasten. [A portable- 

 Apparatus for Louse Disinfection.] — Milnchener Med. Wochetischr., 

 Munich, Ixiii, no. 32, Sth August 1916, p. 1177. 



The disinfection chamber described and ilhistrated here is made of 

 wood and measures 5 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 10 in. It has no bottom 

 and one of the sides opens hke a door. The structure is placed 

 over a fire chamber excavated in the ground and furnished with a 

 stove pipe. The excavation is covered with a sheet of metal with which 

 the clothing is prevented from comuig in contact by a wooden grid 

 fastened within the open side of the box. A valve permits the tem- 

 perature to be regulated. Fifteen uniforms can be dealt with, at one 

 time and the apparatus works well in the o|)en air with the temperature 

 at freezing point. 



Masur ( — ). Influence of Colour in Horses on the Cure of Mange. — 



hitefnat. Rev. Science Pract. Agric, MtJdij. Bull. Agric. InleU. 

 and PI. Dis., Rome, vii, no. 8, August 1916. pp. 1128-1129. 

 [Abstract hom Berliner TierdrzflicJie Wochenschrift,BerUn, xxii, no. 

 25, 22nd June 1916, p. 294.] [Received 13th December 1916.] 



In treating a number of horses for mange it was found that black 

 horses recovered the Cjuickest and were the easiest to treat, bay horses 

 taking a longer time to cure. In chestnut horses the remedy has 

 alp-iost always to be repeated, and in the case of white horses even a 

 second application is not sufficient to effect a cure. This was found to 

 be the case "«ath all the various drugs used. 



It is suggested that Acarids penetrate more easily and more deeply 

 into skin containing no pigment and thus render it more difficult for 

 the curative agent to reach them. 



MuTO (A.). Nuovo metodo per la distruzione dei parassiti cutaneu 



[A new Method for the Destruction of Skin Parasites.]— J/c'n«ii 

 d'lgiene, Rome, xxvi, no. 1, 31st January 1916, pp. 21-22. 

 [Received 27th December 1916.] 



This is a preliminary note on a method for destroymg lice which was 

 dealt with fully in a subsequent paper already abstracted [see this 

 Revietv, Ser. B, iv, p. 177]. 



Ferris (G. F.). Some Ectoparasites of Bats (Dipt.).— j&m'w;?. News^ 

 Philadelphia, xxvii ; no. 10, December 1916, pp. 433-438, 2 plates. 



This paper describes the Xycteribiids, Penicillidia antrozoi, Towns., 

 found on Antrozous jxdlidus ; Penicillidia corynorhini, sp. n.. on Corgno- 

 rhinus townsendi; and Cyclopodia similis, Speis., on an unl^nown bat in 

 Samoa. The Streblid, Ngcterophilia coxata, gen. et sp. n., on the bat 

 Macrotus californicus, is also described from California. 



Dove (W. E.). Some Notes concerning Overwintering of the House- 

 fly, Musca domestica, at Dallas, Texas. — Jl. Econ. E)Uom., 

 Concord, N.H., ix, no. 6, December 1916, pp. 528-538. 



Further experiments on the lines of those previously carried out in 

 Texas [see this Review, Ser. B, iii, pp. 92-94] prove that adult house- 



