an elevation of 4,000 feet and quite close to jungle. The new 

 species, described as AnopJieles (MyzorJiynchus) wellingtonianus , 

 has many points of resemblance both to " Lophoscelomyia" 

 asiatica and to Anopheles (MyzorJiyncJius) harbirostris. It cer- 

 taiuly supports the opinion that, wliatever view be taken of the 

 limits of the genus Anopheles^ all these three species are 

 con^'eneric. 



Carter (H. F.). Descriptions of Three New African Species of the 

 Genus Tahanus. — .1///;. Trap. Med. &,■ L'aias. VI. No. 4. Dec. 

 1912. pp. 435-442. 1 plate. 



The species described are as follow : — 



(1) Tahinius /if/amiensis, sp.n. Habitat: Ngamiland, S. 

 Africa; Dr. AV. R. W. James, 10.xii.1910; fourteen females. 

 Somewhat resembles Tahanus diver sus, Ric. 



(2) Tahanus fulvicapillus , sp.n. K large dark species, closely 

 related to Tahanus trigonus, Coq. Habitat: Banana, Congo Free 

 State; Dr. Etienne; two females. This very striking species 

 cannot be mistaken for any other hitherto recorded from the 

 African Continent. 



(3) Tahanus dovaJdsoni, sp.n. Habitat: Bromassi (two hours 

 from Coomassi), Ashanti, W. Africa; Dr. A. S. Donaldson; one 

 female. Three further examples from Dr. J. B. Adam, 

 Calabar, S. Nigeria. 



The types of all three species are in the collection of the 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 



GuiTERis. Bubonic Plague in Havana. — J I. Am. Med. Ass. 

 Nov. 16, 1912. (Abstract Jl. Trap Med. 1st Jan., 1913.) 



The author reports 3 cases, describes the present sanitary 

 conditions of the city and says that they are favourable for the 

 control of the disease.. In the laboratory 8,909 rats were 

 examined and none were found to be infected with plague. The 

 author says tLat Kitasato lias drawn attention to the fact that 

 it is not rare to have summer epidemics of plague without find- 

 ing plague rats. Another point in favour of the disease being 

 rapidly stamped out was that it appeared in summer, a time 

 when the flea population of rats is at its lowest in the tropics. 

 The author has bred Xenopsylla oJteopis, the common rat flea of 

 Havana, for several years, and the decrease in their numbers in 

 summer has been very striking. 



GoRGAS (Colonel). Sanitary Organisation of the Isthmian Canal. 

 Journal of the Association of the Military Surgeons of the 

 U.S. (Reviewed in Jl. Trap. Med. cf Hyg. XYI. Pt. 1. 

 1st Jan., 191.".. pp. 4-5.) 



The writer describes the Sanitary Organisation of the Isthmian 

 Canal, especially in its bearing on anti-malarial measures. The 

 Canal is the centre of a strip of land 10 miles wide and 45 miles 



