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Koanoke Eiver,only22 out of the 100 counties remaining in quarantine. 

 The work was greatly assisted by the law being adopted in advance 

 by many eastern counties, and few ticks are found where it prevails. 



Baker (A. W.). Lice affecting the Domestic Fovi\.~Canadian Entomo- 

 logist, London, Ont., xlvii, no. 8, August 1915, pp. 237-241, 1 plate. 



The following species of lice infest domestic fowls in Canada : 

 Menopon pallidum, Nitzsch (common hen louse), M. bisenatimi, Piaget, 

 Lipeurus variabilis, Nitzsch (variable chicken louse), and Goniocotes 

 hologaster, Nitzsch (lesser chicken louse). The most effective lice 

 powder can be made by adding sufficient plaster of Paris to three parts 

 gasoline and one part crude carbolic acid ; two or three dustings of 

 this powder at intervals of five to seven days are recommended. Blue 

 ointment worked into the feathers in small quantities has proved 

 successful. Baths containing a mixture of road dust and tobacco 

 dust should be kept in every run. It is advisable where brood hens 

 are used, to set them on tobacco stems obtainable from any cigar 

 factory. Carbolised sweet oil may be used in extreme cases of infestation 

 of young chicks, but must be applied sparingly. Before the introduction 

 of young pullets, the house should be cleaned and painted or sprayed 

 with a mixture of three parts kerosene and one part crude carboUc 

 acid (95 per cent.). 



L'agriculture et l'61evage au Marungu. [Agriculture and stock 

 breeding in the Marungu ieg[on.]^BuU. Agric. Congo Beige, 

 London, v, no. 3, September 1914, pp. 457-470, 5 figs., 

 1 sketch map. [Received 11th September 1915.] 



M. Bovone, the author of the monograph of which this paper is an 

 abstract, has not met with Glossina morsitans in the Marungu region, 

 west of Lake Tanganyika. Elevated, dry and bare plateaus are not 

 a favourite habitat of the fly, which is, however, found in the territories 

 adjoining Marungu. To the north, fly is found at Mulonde and along 

 the road to Baudoinville ; to the south-west it occurs on the banks of 

 the Lukifwa. Cattle driven along the road from Mulonde to Mutambala, 

 a distance of nearly 10 miles, are occasionally followed by tsetse flies, 

 though up to the present, no cases of infection have been reported. 



Vermeesch (M.). Les valines de la Dikuluweetde ses affluents au point 

 de vue de leur valeur agricole. [The valleys of the Djkulwe and 

 its tributaries from the point of view of their agricultural value.] 

 — Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, London, v, no. 3, September 1914, 

 pp. 516-528, 1 sketch map. [Received 11th September 1915.] 



The author was instructed to examine the valleys of the Dikulwe 

 and its tributaries in Katanga, Belgian Congo, with a view to deter- 

 mining areas suitable for farming. A sketch map shows that Glossina 

 morsitans occupies the whole basin except the higher reaches of some 

 of the tributaries. Fly is very abundant to the north of this region, 

 game being plentiful there. It is asserted that regions from which 



