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GoDOY (A.) & Pinto (C). Estudos sobre Malaria. [Studies on Malaria.] 

 — A Folha Medica, Rio dc Janeiro, iii, no. 8, 30th April 1922, 

 p. 87. 



In the district of Campos, State of Rio de Janeiro, Anopheles {Cellia) 

 hrasiliensis is the most common Anopheline, the other species there 

 being A. (C.) argyritarsis, A. (C.) albimanus and A. (C.) tarsimaciilatiis. 

 Microscopic examination showed A. hrasiliensis to be infected with 

 malaria, though the authors are not satisfied as to the value to be 

 attached to such examinations of the stomachs of Anophelines. 



Ferris (G. F.) & Cole (F. R.). A Contribution to the Knowledge of the 

 Hippoboscidae (Diptera Pupipara). — Parasitology, Cambridge, xiv, 

 no. 2, June 1922, pp. 178-205, 20 figs. 



Up to the present the study of Hippoboscids has been almost entirely 

 restricted to the observation of dried specimens. The authors do not, 

 however, consider this method adequate in the case of the Pupipara, 

 as the abdomen, which often presents valuable characters, is generally 

 passed over with little or no mention owing to its shrivelled condition. 

 Ten species are therefore here redescribed, the technique employed 

 for the preparation of slide mounts being given. 



The new species, dealt with are Lipoptena traguli, described from 

 male and female individuals taken from three species of Tragxdus, 

 from islands in the south China sea ; Ornithoica promiscua, from females, 

 from various birds in Cahfornia ; and the male of Melophagus ovinus, 

 L., montanus, subsp. n., from mountain sheep, on the Alaska- Yukon 

 boundary. 



Leger (M.) & Baury (A.). Trypanosome de I'Ecureuil fossoyeur du 



S^n^gal, Xerus erythroptis. — C.R. Soc. Biol., Paris, Ixxxvii, 

 no. 22, 17th June 1922, pp. 133-134. 



Trypanosomes have been isolated from a ground squirrel {Xerus 

 erythroptis) in the immediate vicinity of Dakar, Senegal, and are 

 provisionally described as T. xeri, though they may prove to be 

 identical with T. eburneense found on the Ivory Coast in Mtis concha. 

 The latter was successfully inoculated into X. erythropus. Experi- 

 ments with the inoculation of T. xeri into white rats, mice and guinea- 

 pigs proved negative. 



Leger (M.). Formes erithidiennes observees chez Lyperosia thirouxi, 

 Roubaud. — C.R. Soc. Biol., Paris, Ixxxvii, no. 22, 17th June 

 1922, pp. 134-136. 



During the examination of numerous biting flies, Lyperosia thirouxi, 

 Roub., and L. longipalpis, Rond. {minuta, Bezzi) taken on animals 

 suffering from horse-sickness at Dakar, one individual was found to 

 harbour numerous crithidial flagellates. They occurred in the stomach, 

 in the middle of freshly ingested red blood corpuscles that were 

 apparently the same as those of the horse. Subsequent examinations 

 of L. thirouxi and L. minuta taken on cattle and healthy horses proved 

 negative. 



These observations require further amphfication before it can be 

 decided whether this organism is specific to L. thirouxi or whether 

 it is a trypanosome of vertebrates. 



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