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CooLEY (R. A.)- Eleventh Annual Report of the State Entomologist 

 of Montana.— M^a. Agric. Exp. Sta., Bozeinan, Bull. 98, Feb. 

 1914, pp. 126-127 and 132-135. [Received ITth Aug. 1914.] 



In the course of his report on insect pests in 1913 [see this Review, 

 Ser. A, ii, pp. 536-537] the Montana State Entomologist says that for 

 some time horses in the eastern part of the State have been attacked 

 during the summer months by what has been called the " nose-fly." The 

 insect flies near the ground, frequently between the fore- legs of the 

 horse, and then suddenly darts up at the hps, where the eggs are 

 deposited, instead of in the nostrils as is commonly supposed. FUes 

 sent to the U. S. Jiureau of Entomology have been identified as 

 Gastrophilus haemorrhoidalis, L., the lip bot fly. 



With regard to the sp<^)tted-fever tick in Montana, an Act was 

 approved on ISth March 1913, to create a State Hoard of Entomology, 

 having, among others, the following powers : — " To take steps to 

 eradicate and prevent the spread of Rocky Mountain tick fever, 

 infantile paralysis and all other infectious or comirmnicable diseases 

 that may be transmitted or carried by insects. To investigate and 

 study the dissemination by insects of diseases among persons and 

 animals." Tito iJoard shall have authority to make and prescribe 

 rules and regulations, including the right of quarantine over persons 

 and animals in any district of infection, and shall have the right to 

 designate and prescribe the treatment for domestic animals to prevent 

 the spread of such diseases. 



Killing Lice on Chickens. — Bull. Texas Dept. Agric, Austin, no. 35, 

 Jan.-Feb. 1914, p. 37. 



At the third meeting of the Texas State Farmers' Institute the 

 following methods were recommended for killing lice on chickens : — 

 (1) Dipping the fowls in a 2 per cent, solution of chlorine. (2) A good 

 lice pow^der was stated to be made of one pint of 2 per cent, chlorine 

 solution and i pint of gasolene mixed together, and then as much 

 air-slacked lime poured into the liquid as it will take up, stirring 

 thorouglily during the addition. The mixture should be slightly 

 damp when made and should be kept in air-tight receptacles. This 

 can be used for dusting hens, and a little may be put into the bottom 

 of the nests, but care must be taken not to use too much or it will 

 spoil the eggs by giving them an objectionable flavour. The powder 

 should be well dusted under the feathers. 



Teichmann (E.). Zur Biologie der Tsetse-Fiiegen. [The Biology of 

 the tsctse-^ies.]—Zeitschr. fur angpivandle Entomologie, Berlin,!, 

 no. 1, April 1914, pp. 147-159, 2 pis. 



The author and Dr. H. ]jraun bred hundreds of tsetse-flies at Amani, 

 German East Africa, in the manner indicated by Kleine. For trans- 

 port, large glass jars covered with mosquito-gauze were used, a layer 

 of earth, planted with small plants, b(Mng spread on the bottom. 

 Only a few of the flies died before reaching Vmani, though the captures 

 were made on the day preceding that of delivery. In all some 10,000 



