ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA., JUNE, 1914. 
Prevention of Insect-borne Diseases in the Army in Mexico. 
An Associated Press despatch to the daily newspapers, dated 
Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 7, 1914, states that Surgeon G. M. 
Guiteras, medical officer of that port under the American occu- 
pation, has planned a campaign against flies in order to safe- 
guard the public and the army against typhoid fever. 
Dr. L. O. Howard, in his book The House Fly—Disease 
Carrier, sums up the ravages of typhoid in the American army 
during the Spanish War of 1808 as follows: 
Every regiment in the United States service developed typhoid 
HEVEI2. =. <2 All encampments located in the Northern as well as in the 
Southern States exhibited typhoid in epidemic form...... Infected 
water was not an important factor in the spread of typhoid in the 
national encampments of 1808, but about one-fifth of the soldiers 
in the national encampments in the United States during that summer 
developed this disease, while more than eighty per cent. of the total 
deaths were caused by typhoid. (Pp. 118, 119). 
[And quoting from the report of the Army Typhoid Commission :] 
“Flies undoubtedly served as carriers of the infection.” (P. 117). 
Entomologists look to the American Army to make a much 
better showing in its Mexican experience. It is to be hoped 
that, whatever that showing may be, it will not be without im- 
portant effect on the community at large in causing the non- 
entomological public to realize the influence of insects on 
human health. 
—— 
Smicra mariae Riley (Hym.) 
On May 3, 1900, a number of individuals of this species were reared 
from the cocoons of the bagworm, Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis 
Haworth, taken at Annapolis, Maryland; also May 4, 1901.—A. A. 
GIRAULT. 
Epargyreus tityrus Fabricius in Maryland (Lepid.) 
This common butterfly was very common on the wing in Anne 
Arundel County the first two weeks in August, 1900. They seemed 
to have gone by the last of the month since it was noted on August 
26 that none could be found (Baltimore County). I am indebted to 
Dr. Henry Skinner for its identification—A. A. GrRAULT. 
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