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In connection with anti-mosquito measures attention is drawn to 

 the importance of rain-water barrels as breeding-places of Cidex 

 pipiens, and of old pots and tins in the case of this species, A . bifurcatus 

 and A. maciUipennis. Observation has confirmed the value of the 

 author's suggestion that a few collections of stagnant water should 

 be left as traps in which large numbers of larvae and pupae may be 

 destroved. 



Galli-Valerio (B.). Le Cycle evolutif probable de VHerpetomonas 

 pyrrhocoris, Zotta & Galli-Valerio. — Schiveiz. med. Wochenschr., 

 1, 1920, pp. 401-402. (Abstract in Centralbl. Bakt. Paras. 

 Infekf.Jena, Ilte'Abt., liv, no. 3-7, 12th July 1921, pp. 188-189.) 

 [Received 5th November 1921.] 



Herpetomonas pyrrhocoris is a flagellate found in the bug, Pyrrhocoris 

 apterus, which usually occurs on Colchicum autiimnale. In the spring 

 the rotting blossoms become a brown, semi-fluid mass, which contains 

 an abundant saprophytic fauna. In this decomposing matter the 

 flagellate reaches the intestine of the bug, multiplies, and is deposited 

 again in autumn on the blossom (without a fiagellum) with the insect's 

 excreta. In this medium the organism survives the winter. The author 

 considers these conditions to be an even more primitive degree of the 

 adaptation of a saprophytic protozoon to an internal parasitic life than 

 obtains in H. davidi, which lives in the latex of Euphorbia. 



ToNNOiR (A.). Une nouvelle Espece europeenne du Genre Phlebotonms 

 {Ph. neglectus). — Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Brussels, Ixi, no. 9-10, 

 3rd November 1921, pp. 333-335, 1 fig. 



Phlebotomus neglectus, sp. n., is described from several examples 

 in the Vienna Museum. This species resembles P. perniciosus, 

 Newst., though in size it is nearer P. papatasii. Scop. Its geographical 

 distribution is practically confined to the eastern Adriatic Coast, and 

 it is rather remarkable that this is the region where three-day fever, 

 of which P. papatasii is considered to be the vector, occurs with the 

 greatest intensity. It is quite possible, therefore, that, contrary to the 

 generally accepted theory, P. neglectus may be the chief carrier of 

 the fever, which, moreover, does not occur in many regions where 

 P. papatasii is found. 



KoLBE (W.). 1st Schafzucht in den Tropen moglich ? [Is Sheep- 

 breeding possible in the Tropics?] — Beiheft zum Tropenpflanzer , 

 Berlin, xxi, no. 1, September-October 1921, 31 pp., 2 figs. 



Practical information on dips and dipping of sheep is given at some 

 length in this paper. 



Wenyon (C. M.), Anderson (A. G.), McLay (K.), Hele (T. S.) 

 & Waterston (J.). Malaria in Macedonia, 1915-1919. — //. 

 R.A.M.C., London, xxxvii, no. 2, August 1921, pp. 81-82. 



In view of the serious handicap to military operations in Macedonia 

 caused by the epidemic of malaria, a malaria inquiry laboratory was 



