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GoLDi (E. A.). Darmkanal und RUssel der Stubenfliege vom sanita- 

 rischen Standpunkte aus. [The Intestine and Proboscis of the 

 House-Fly from the Sanitary Point of View.] — Mitt. Schweiz. 

 Entom. Ges., Berne, xii, no. 9-10, December 1917, pp. 418-431, 

 3 figs. 



Some description is given of the anatomy of the house-fl}- [Musca 

 domestica], more particularly of the mouth-parts and intestine. It is 

 pointed out that house-flies play a twofold part as mechanical carriers 

 of disease germs. In the carriage of germs attached to the exterior 

 of its body the role is a passive one, but a more active part is played 

 by the intestine. It may be assumed that under normal conditions 

 the house-fly is the vector of typhus abdominalis, cholera, dysentery, 

 epidemic diarrhoea, tuberculosis, anthrax, framboesia tropica, and 

 ophthalmia. 



Van Es (L.) & Schalk (A. F.). Sur la Nature anaphylactique de 

 rintoxication parasitaire. [On the Anaphylactic Nature of 

 Parasitic Poisoning.] — Ann. Inst. Pasteur, Paris, xxxii, no. 7, 

 July 1918, pp. 310-362. 



In a notice of this paper published in this Review. Ser. B, vi, p. 209, 

 it is not made clear that the conclusions given are those of 

 MM. Seyderhelm and that the authors themselves disagree with them, 

 both as a result of their own experiments and because the foci of 

 equine pernicious anaemia are more or less limited, whereas flies of 

 the genus Gastrophilus are universally distributed. 



Cameron (A. E.). Warbles and Bots. — Tenth Ann. Rept. Quebec Soc. 

 Protection Plants from Insects and Fungous Diseases, 1917-1918 ; 

 Quebec, 1918. pp. 21-39. [Received 23rd November 1918.] 



This paper gives a popular account of the warble-flies, H/jpoderma 

 bocis, DeG., & H. lineatum, Vill., and of the bot-flies, Gastrophilus 

 intestinalis, DeG., G. nasalis, L., and G. haemorrhoidah'^. L. 



BoDET ( — ) Note sur quelques Cas de pseudo-Myiase rampante ou 

 pseudo-DraconcuIose, observes d Tamatave. [A Note on some 

 Cases of creeping pseudo-Myiasis or pseudo-Draconculosis observed 

 at Tamatave.] — Bull. Soc. Path. Exot., Paris, xi, no. 8, 9th 

 October 1918, pp. 716-722. 



Several cases are recorded of a curious skin afTection of indeterminate 

 origin which the author has had under observation at Tamatave, 

 Madagascar. The disease is popularly ascribed to ' Senegalese 

 worm,' and while it is apparently cavised by some parasite, the species 

 implicated is unknown. Possible parasites that might be concerned 

 are a Dipterous larva, a Sarcoptid mite or some such insect as 

 Dermatophilus {Pidex) penetrans. The author is incHned to accept 

 the last possibility, although the cases recorded were observed during 

 the rainy season, when this flea is rare. 



