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Lahille (F.). Nota sobre la presencia accidental en Buenos Aires de 

 Unas Garrapatas de Camello. [Note on the accidental presence in 

 Buenos Aires of certain camel ticks.] — Bol. Minist. Agric. Baenos 

 Aires, xvii, no. 2, Feb. 19U, pp. 289-293, 3 pis. 



The Argentine Minister of Agriculture recently purchased a number 

 of camels from Dakar and from the Canary Islands, wliich were found 

 to be infested with ticks. 



One of the camels from Dakar carried eight males of Hyalomma 

 aegyptium and one male of H. dromedarii, considered by Neumann 

 to be only a variety of the former. The genus Hgcdoin/na has no 

 representatives in Argentina, Brazil, or Chili. Tvv'enty-seven males 

 of H. dromedarii were obtained in all. One of the camels from the 

 Canaries carried two female ticks, easily confounded at first sight 

 with the common cattle tick of the comii^j , Boo pliilas micro plus, Can. 

 Unfortunately no males could be found, but there is a little doubt in 

 the author's opinion that these ticks are Boophilus decoloratus, Koch, 

 not previously recorded on camels. He regards the possible establish- 

 ment of this tick in the Argentine as a serious matter for cattle-breeders. 



Ticks in the West Indies. — Arjric. Keus, Barbados, xiii, no. 310, 14th. 

 Maich 1914, p. 90. 



The following is a list of West Indian ticks, including a small collec- 

 tion made by Mr. T. P. Saunders and identified by Messrs. Nuttall 

 and Warburton through the Imperial Bureau of Entomology: — Argas 

 'niiniatus (the fowl tick), Antigua, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad ; 

 Argas sp., 8t. Vincent (on rat) ; Margaropus ausfralis (the cattle 

 tick), St. Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, 

 Barbados, St. Vincent, Trinidad ; Andjhjomma variegatinn. (the gold 

 tick), St. Kitts, Antigua, Guadeloupe ; A))ihlyom)na hirluni, Guade- 

 loupe ; Atublyomma dissimile, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad ; Rhipice- 

 phalus sanguineus, (the brown dog tick), Antigua, Dominica, Barbcidos, 

 St. Kitts, Montserrat, St. Vincent ; Boophilus sp., Barbados (on dog) ; 

 Hyalomma aegyjMum, Guadaloupe ; Hyalomma longirostre, Trinidad ; 

 Derinacentor nitens, St. Kitts, Montserrat, St. "Vincent, Trinidad ; 

 Rhi picejilialus sp., Trinidad. 



Venables (E. P.). A Note upon the Food Habits of adult Tenthre- 

 dinidae. — Canadian Entomologist, London, 0)d., xlvi, no. 4, 

 p. 121. 



A captive specimen of Tenthredo variegatus was found to be a 

 voracious feeder upon houseflies, a wound being made in the body 

 through which the contents were extracted. 



Major (H. S.). The Dipping of Sheep in New South Wales. — Agric. 

 Gaz. ofN.S.W., Sydney, xxv, pt. 5, May 1914, pp. 309-374. 



The Minister for Agriculture has approved of the recommendation 

 that the infestation of sheep with sheep-louse {Trichodecfes sphaero- 

 cephalus) or sheep-tick (Melophagus ovinus) be declared a disease, and 

 when the regulations become law, stock-inspectors will have the power 



