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Edwards (F. W.)- Revised Keys to the known Larvae of African 



Culicinae.— 5?//?. Entom. Rcscaich, iii, pt, 4, Dec. .1912, pp. 



373-385, 9 fig^s. 



This paper contains a revision and amplification of Wesclie's 



work on African mosqnito larvae (Bnll. Ent. l^es. i, April 1910, 



pp. 169-230, pis. i-vii), and is based largely on material obtained 



by Dr. A. Ingram in the Gold Coast. Keys or descriptions are 



given of 12 species of Anoplieline larvae and of 34 Culicines 



belonging to 12 genera. 



AusTEX (E. E.). New African Tabanidae— Part III. — Bull. 

 Entom. Research, iii, pt. 4, Dec. 1912, pp. 399-416, 4 figs. 



The follo^^■ing list shows at a glance the conntries in which 

 these additions to our knowledge of the blood-sucking flies of 

 Africa have been obtained. 



Diato mine lira lineatitlwrax, sp. n. Northern Ehodesia. 

 ,, penetrabilis, sp. n. ... ,, ,, 



hastata, sp. n. ... Portuguese East Africa. 



Haematopota grnhami, sp. n. ... Ashanti ; Sierra Leone 



Protectorate. 

 (larei/i, sp. n. ... Nj'asaland Protectorate. 



i)ihen.'i, sp. n. ... Xyasaland Protectorate ; 



Northern Rhodesia ; 

 Southern llhodesia. 

 ,, he/in rjcri, sp. n. ... Gold Const (Northern 



Territories) ; North- 

 ern Nigeria. 

 ,, crudelis, sp. n. ... German East Africa. 



Noc (F.). Remarques et observations sur le role des Moustiques dans 

 la propagation de la Lepre. [Eemarks and observations on the 

 role of Mosquitos in the spread of Leprosy.] — Bull. Soc. 

 Path. Exot. V, no. 10, Dec. 1912, pp. T8T-T89. 



The author has for a considerable period made observations 

 upon the role of the mosquito as a possible carrier of leprosy in 

 New Caledonia, and cites a number of observers who regard this 

 supposition as at least very improbable. He wishes however 

 to place on record the results of certain observations made some 

 years ago to the elf ect that the bacillus of Hansen may be found in 

 the alimentary tract of certain species of Culex in New Caledonia, 

 and remarks that no matter how small the number of these bacilli 

 so found, it is at least possible that leprosy may be transmitted 

 by the continual repetition of the bites of these insects. He records 

 observations which tend to show that if leprous patients were 

 bitten by species of Culex which had been allowed previously to 

 feed upon other leprous patients, the temperature of these cases 

 rose. Further, he found in the blood of Culex, collected in 

 rooms which were inhabited by persons suffering from leprosy, 

 the characteristic bacillus of Hansen and he thinks that there 



