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The fly i.s also accused of transmitting glanders and anthrax as 

 a direct carrying agent. 



The author has received from Transkei several specimens of 

 Simuliuin obtained from sheep at Mevana, on the border between 

 Libode and Port St. Johns. These flies were found fully gorged 

 and attacking sheep in the neighbourhood of fly-blown sores. 

 Horses which have died lately in that neighbourhood (probably 

 from horse sickness) have been found to have their ears full of this 

 fly and blood was oozing from the bites. A number of different 

 species of Simulium exist throughout South Africa, but outbreaks 

 must be regarded as rare, the flies being very local. One species is 

 a great pest of poultry in certain districts round Capetown. The 

 author says that the control of the insect in its earlier stages is 

 quite impracticable and that stock can only be protected by 

 burning smudges and by smears. 



Stuaciian (Dr. II."). West African Notes. — Jl. Tropical Med. S; 

 Hyg., xvi, no.' 14, 15th July 1913, p. 214. 



In some notes on the bites of the tsetse-fly (Glos.sina'pal2)alis)i\ie 

 author mentions that there is grave danger of sleeping sickness 

 extending southward along the river valleys of Southern Nigeria. 

 It is noteworthy that the only cases which came to notice in the 

 Western (Yoruba) Province of Southern Nigeria had been infected 

 in other countries (such as Fernando Po, Congo, etc.), and that 

 although G. palpalis abounds in the Western Province, and 

 trypanosomiasis of horses and cattle is common, there appeared to 

 be no instance of infection from the few immigrant cases of 

 sleeping sickness which were detected by the Medical Department 

 during the fourteen years that the author was there. 



[The facts available do not appear to warrant the statement that 

 there is ' grave danger ' of the disease spreading in S. Nigeria. 

 —Ed.] 



Wakhurton (C). On Four New Species and Two New Varieties of 

 the Ixodid Genus Hacinaphy sails. — Farasitology, vi, no. 2, 

 July 19i;i, pp. 121-130, 8 figs. 



The number of recognised good species of the genus 

 Hacmaphy sails now reaches 43, the majority being essentially 

 Asiatic. One of the new species described in this paper 

 (//. aolculifer), however, was taken from an antelope (Cobus 

 tliomasl) on the N.E. shore of Lake Edward, Uganda, in October 

 1911, by S. A. Neave. The other new species described are: — 

 //. ahorensls, taken on grass by S. AV. Kemp (Abor Expedition) 

 at Yambung, 1,100 ft. //. howlettl was found by F. M. Hewlett 

 on a hill-pony at Rawalpindi. //. hinneari is described from a 

 single female taken by N. B. Kinnear from a tiger at Kadra, 

 Kanara, India, in November 1910. //. cornlgera var. anoviala, 

 var. n., was taken from a wolf, 4 miles west of Koderma Station, 

 Chota Nagpur, by Major 0. A. Smith in August 1912. In its 

 company were .'specimens of //. hlsplnosa var. Intermedia, II. 

 leachl and RJiiplcepJialus Itaetnaphysaloldes. H. Inermis var. 



