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each year. Mosquitos abound, and in 1912 Cardaraatis drew up the 

 following table of proportionate occurrence of Anopheliues, especially 

 near Athens : — Anopheles claviger, 42 "50 per cent. ; A. superpictus, 

 50 per cent. : A. bifurcaius, 5 'So per cent. ; A. pseudopictas, 1'85 per 

 cent. 



Up to the time of writing, the author has identified only A. claviger 

 or A. tnacnlipennis at Salonica or ni Macedonia. In some places in 

 the hinterland, A. [Nyssorhynchus) pseudopidus was also observed, 

 as well as a species resemblmg A. {N.) saperpiclus. So far no examples 

 of A. bifurcaius have been taken. Stegomyia fasciaia {calopus) occurs 

 at Salonica, where Phlebolomus also abounds. In addition to a 

 carefully supervised quinine prophylaxis, there were served out to 

 the Army of the East 112,300 mosquito nets for men standing up and 

 48,810 for men lying down. All standing water received attention, 

 and, where oiling was required, a mixture of 9 parts " petrole lampant " 

 and 1 part spidoleine Andre was found satisfactory. No cases occurred 

 in one regiment in which quinine prophylaxis and the use of mosquito 

 nets were rigidly enforced. 



P. S. Kl. 6opb6"b CT* KypHHHblMH KnemawiM. [The Control of Ticks 

 on Fowls.]— «TypKeCTaHCHOe CenbCKOe X03flMCTB0.» [Agricul- 

 ture of Turkestan], Tashkent, xi, no. 5, May 1916, pp. 463-464. 

 [Received 10th April 1917.] 



To protect fowls from ticks (Argas persicus), the adults of which 

 hide during the day and attack the birds at night, it is suggested that 

 the perches should be scorched at least once every three days with a 

 torch of burning straw or wood-shavings. The use of perches isolated 

 by cups containing oil or kerosene from the walls and floor of the 

 houses is recommended, as well as frequent whitewashing of the 

 houses, which should be constructed with a minimum of wood ; the 

 laying boxes must also be so made as to allow of proper disinfection. 



RouBAUD (E.). Cas de Paludisme contracte dans I'Aisne. [A Case 

 of Malaria contracted in the Department of Aisne.] — Bidl. Soc. 

 Path. Exot., Paris, x, no. 3, 14th March 1917, p. 171. 



A case is recorded of a French soldier having no previous colonial 

 or malarial history, who developed this fever in August 1916, after 

 having been in the same district since 17th February of that vear. 

 He had had no direct contact at any time with colonial troops, but 

 at the time when the attack developed, Moroccan contingents were 

 in the trenches to the left of his sector and mosquitos were abundant. 



Weiss (A.). Sur un Pulicide nouveau de I'Afrique mineure. [On a 



new Flea from North Africa.] — -Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat., Algiers, viii, 

 no. 3, 15th March 1917, pp. 55-62, 3 figs. 



Pulex raptoris, sp. n., obtained from Tunis, from a porcupine 

 {Hystrix cristata), is here described. 



