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Mansion (G.)- Les Phl6botomes europ6ens. [European species of 

 Phlebotomus.]—Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, vii, no. 7, 8th July 

 1914, pp. 584-590. 



In this paper descriptions are given of the five European species of 

 Phlebotomus viz: — P. papatasii, Scop., P. perniciosus, Newst., P. 

 minutus, Rond., P. nigerrimus, Newst., and P. legeri, Mans. 



Laveran (A.) & Franchini (G.). Infections de Mammif^res par des 

 Flagell6s d'Invert6br6s. [Infection of mammals with the flagellates 

 of invertebrates.] — Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, vii, no. 7, 

 8th July 1914, pp. 605-612. 



The authors have previously demonstrated that mice and rats may 

 be infected by injecting into the peritoneal cavity the flagellates 

 Herpetomonas ctenocephali and H. pattoni, from the dog or rat flea, 

 also with flagellates from Anopheles maculipennis {Crithidia fascicidaia) 

 or from Melophagus ovinus (C melophaga). Mice have also been 

 infected wath Herpefomonas pattoni by ingestion of the faepes of 

 infected rat-fleas. 



Mathis (C). Evolution d'un Trypanosome dans le liquide salivaire 

 d'un Moustique. [Developm.ent of a Trypanosome in the sahvary 

 secretion of a Mosquito.] — C. R. Soc. Biol., Paris, Lxxvii, no. 24, 

 10th July 1914, pp. 297-300. 



Up to the present, trypanosomes have only been found in mosquitos 

 in the middle and hinder parts of the alimentary tract, and all these 

 flagellates are either Crithidia or Lepfomonas. None can be considered 

 true trypanosomes and experiments, made more particiflarly with 

 T. gambiense, tend to support the hypothesis that the role of the 

 mosquito in the transmission of trypanosomiasis is purely mechanical. 

 The author has found in the salivary glands of a species of Cnlex, 

 taken in January 1914 at Hanoi, multiple flagellate forms which seem 

 to indicate that this mosquito acted as a true host. A large number 

 of other mosquitos taken on the same spot showed no trypanosomes, 

 and the failure of attempts to infect mosquitos with Trypanosoma 

 annamense, the agent of surra in Indo-China, excludes this particular 

 form, but it would nevertheless appear that a trypanosome exists 

 which is capable of undergoing in the mosquito an evolution analagous 

 to that observed in Glossina. 



Die Krankheitsubertragung durch Ameisen. [The transmission of 

 disease by ants.] — Entom. Zeitschr., Frankfurt a. M., xxviii, 

 no. 15, 11th July 1914, p. 86. 



Dr. Bate's observations on the big yellow ants in the Panama Canal 

 zone have proved that they are able to carry about for a whole day 

 typhus bacilU with which they have come in contact. This probably 

 apphes also to cholera and dysentery germs. Ants do not ingest the 

 bacilli or distribute them in their excreta. [See this Review, Set. B, 

 ii, p. 9]. 



