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elsewhere, the distribution of sleeping sickness does not coincide, 

 quantitatively speaking, with that of G. palpalis. In the Kikwit 

 territory, as in the entire Ivwilu region, sleeping sickness is advancing 

 from north to south. 



Jimenez (R. M.). El Paludismo en el Estado Zamora. [Malaria in the 

 State of Zamora, Venezuela.]— Gace?/a Med. de Caracas, xxviii, 

 no. 23, 15th December 1921, pp. 351-365, 10 figs. 



A detailed description is given of Anopheles {Cellia) argyritarsis, 

 which is the most common Anopheline in Zamora and the probable 

 vector of malaria there. Two other species, not definitely determined, 

 are also described. 



Barreto (A.). Febbre amarella no nordeste brasileiro. [Yellow Fever 

 in North-eastern Brazil.] — Arch. Brasileiros Med., Rio de Janeiro, 

 xi, no. 3, March 1921, pp. 205-244. 



The mosquitos observed in the course of this investigation included 

 Aedes (Stegomyia) argenteus, Ciilex fatigans {qiiinquefasciatits) and 

 C. cingulatus. 



PiNo-Pou (R.). La Fiebre Reeurrente en general y particularmente en 

 Venezuela. [Recurrent Fever in general and particularly in 

 Venezuela.] — Gaceta Med. de Caracas, xxviii, nos. 9-11, 15th 

 & 31st May-15th June 1921, pp. 111-123, 125-137, 139-150, 

 11 figs., 8 charts. 



The transmitter of recurrent fever in Venezuela is a species of 

 Ornithodoriis, believed by Bello and Loynaz Sucre to be 0. fiircosus, 

 Neum., and by Tejera to be 0. turicata. Dug. The author considers 

 the tick concerned to be 0. talajc, Guer., and he thinks that the 

 bed-bugs, Cimex hemiptera {rotundattts) and C. lechtlarius, may also 

 be vectors. 



CuRAssoN (G.) . La Gale chorioptiaue du Boeuf au S^n^gal et au Soudan. 



—Rec. Med. Vet., xcviii, no. 1, 15th January 1922, pp. 14-19. 

 (Abstract in Trop. Vet. Bull, London, x, no. 2, 31st May 1922, 

 pp. 39-40.) 



Mange in cattle appears after the rains — in November and December. 

 Though it spreads rapidly over the bod}^ it readily yields to treatment. 

 The native method comprises washing with urine that has undergone 

 ammoniacal fermentation to clean the skin, and then using a decoction 

 of the astringent bark of the baobab tree, tobacco leaves and indigo. 

 Simple washing with native soap, followed by water containing cresyl, 

 has given good results. Infested animals should be isolated. 



This form of mange does not spread naturally to other kinds of 

 domestic animals, though an experimental infection of the horse 

 was successful. 



RoDiNo (N.). Una Epidemia de Febbre ricorrente ad Itala nella 

 Somalia italiana. [An Epidemic of Relapsing Fever at Itala in 

 Italian Somaliland.] — Giornale Med. Milii., Rome, Ixx, no. 2, 

 1st February 1922, pp. 90-93. 



This paper describes an outbreak of relapsing fever in Italian 

 Somaliland. About 90 per cent, of the ticks collected in the sand 

 in native dwellings were Ornithodoriis moubata. 



