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coconut oil. The author has tested this remedy carefully, and on 

 examining the stomach post mortem found that it had produced no 

 effect whatever. During the spring and summer months, when the 

 larval stage is complete, the bots loose their hold spontaneously and 

 are ejected per anum, so that for a short time annually the stomach is 

 free from them. 



East Coast Fever Regulation. — Agric. Jl. Union S. Africa, Pretoria, 

 viii, no. 2, August 1914, pp. 244-245. 



The following East Coast fever regulations have been issued, amending 

 and superseding Clauses 16 [g) and 17 (/) of Government Notice No. 

 1749 of 1914 : — 16 (g). It shall be the duty of every owner or, in his 

 absence, of any person taking charge of his cattle in an infected area 

 to take the following precautions as to his cattle therein : (a) If the 

 cattle are confined in a fenced enclosure he shall take all necessary 

 steps to prevent them leaving such enclosure ; (6) if the cattle are not 

 in a fenced enclosure he shall provide efficient and sufficient herds 

 to prevent the cattle straying out of the infected area, or from any 

 portion thereof from which they may not be moved without a permit, 

 or from any portion thereof to which they have been confined by 

 written order of the Government Veterinary Officer. 17 (/). It shall 

 be the duty of every owner or, in his absence, of any person taking 

 charge of his cattle within an East Coast fever area to take the following 

 precautions as to his cattle therein : (a) If the cattle are confined in a 

 fenced enclosure he shall take all necessary steps to prevent them 

 leaving such enclosure ; (6) if the cattle are not in a fenced enclosure 

 he shall provide efiicient and sufficient herds to prevent the cattle 

 straying out of any area from which they may not be moved without 

 a permit or from any portion of such East Coast fever area to which 

 they have been confined by written order of the Government Veterinary 

 Officer. 



Knab (F.). Ceratopogoninae sucking the Blood of other Insects. — 



Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington, Washington D.C., xvi, no. 3, Sept. 

 1914, pp. 139-141. 



W Further notes on observations of Ceratopogoninae attacking 

 mosquitos are given, [see this Review, Ser. B, ii, p. 132]. In one 

 case, Culicoides sp. was found attached to common house mosquitos, 

 presumably Culex quinquefasciatus ; in another, in Kuala Lumpur, 

 examples of a Ceratopogon were found embedded in the abdomen of 

 female Anophelines which had previously fed on blood, including 

 A. fuliginosus, A. karwari and A. sinensis. Another Culicoides was 

 found attached to a female Anopheles, but in this case the midge 

 had its proboscis inserted in the anterior thoracic region of the 

 mosquito and there was nothing to show that it was extracting the 

 contents of the digestive tract. 



Kennedy (A. F.). Fish in Drains and Swamps in Bathurst. — Ann. 

 Rept. Gambia Med. Dept. 1913, London, 1914, pp. 20-21. 

 [Received 26th November 1914.] 



The Medical Officer of Health reports that during 1913 pools of 

 water very rapidly dried up. The main drains swarmed with fish, 



