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Dyar (H. G.) & Ludlow (C. S.). Notes on American Mosquitoes 

 (Diptera, Culicidae). — Milit. Surgeon, Washington, B.C., \, no. 1, 

 January 1922, pp. 61-64, 2 figs. 



Descriptions are given of Ctdex {CJweroporpa) aneles, sp. n., from 

 the Panama Canal Zone, and of the hitherto unknown males of Goeldia 

 espini. Mart., and Aedes {Taeniorhynchits ?) thelcter, Dyar. 



Haydon (L. G.). Memorandum on the Disposal of Animal Manure 

 and Garbage in relation to Fly-breeding, and the Prevention of 

 Enteric Fever and other Intestinal Diseases. — S. African Med. 

 Record, Cape Town, xx, no. 12, 24th June 1922, pp. 230-232. 



The device here described for storing manure and garbage so as to 

 destroy flies and rot the contents for use as a fertiliser consists of 

 enclosures of wire mesh on cement or brick platforms. A channel 

 sunk in the platform surrounds the enclosures and traps the larvae as 

 they are driven out by the heat engendered in the material trodden down 

 in the enclosure. The great secret of success is the close packing of 

 the manure at the edges. 



Belai (A.). Beobachtungen bei einer Epidemic von Tertianafieber in 

 russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. [Observations on an Epidemic 

 of Tertian Fever among Prisoners of War in Russia.] — Wiener 

 Klin. Wochenschr., Vienna, xxxv, no. 3, 19th January 1922, 

 pp. 57-58. 



Of 600 Austrian officers at Samara, European Russia, half were 

 infected with malaria, and the whole party was evacuated to' 

 Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, at the end of September 1918. In the autumn 

 of that year and in spring and summer of 1919 nearly all the remainder 

 became infected with tertian malaria, in spite of the fact that 

 Krasnoyarsk had been previously free from the disease. The latest 

 possibility of infection was in August 1918, and the last tertian infection 

 observed occurred in August 1919, or nearly a year later. All these 

 cases were transferred officers, and the author was unable to find any 

 Anophelines in or near the Siberian camp. He is unable to account for 

 four or five cases of tertian among original members of the second 

 camp, but since they slept next to, or were on very friendly terms 

 with, infected new-comers, he suggests that bed-bugs may have carried 

 the infection. 



Sergent (Ed.) & Sergent (Et.). L'Assainissement de la Corse. — 

 Bidl. Acad. Med., Paris, Ixxxvii, no. 6, 7th February 1922, 

 pp. 163-168. 



The results of a malaria survey of Corsica are given [R.A.E., B, x, 71]. 



GoLiNi (0.). La Deratizzazione e Disinfestazione della Navi a mezzo 

 dell'Acido cianidrico. [Rat Destruction on Ships by Hydrocyanic 

 Acid Gas.] — // Policlinico, Rome, xxviii, no. 3, 17th January 

 1922, pp. 88-91. 



The process and precautions needed in the fumigation of ships with 

 hydrocyanic acid gas are described. It is suggested that living rats 

 be lowered into the hold as safety indicators after fumigation. 



