Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 4^5 



A Senator on Medical Entomology. 



The Hon. John D. Works uses 78 pages of fine print to try to 

 convince the people of the United States that the bill to establish 

 an independent Health Service would be a pernicious thing. He is 

 the spokesman for all kinds of practitioners of medicine who fear 

 the nation may become too healthy, if the bill becomes a law. He 

 says, "it is claimed to have been discovered that the sting of the 

 mosquito causes yellow fever, the bite of the fly typhoid fever, and 

 that the ground squirrel is the carrier of bubonic plague." We are 

 not aware of the fact that mosquitoes sting, being under the impres- 

 sion from actual experience that they bite. We did not know that 

 the bite of the mosquito is the cause of yellow fever, being under 

 the impression that the cause of yellow fever is unknown. Some 

 flies bite, but we suppose he refers to Musca domestica which only 

 tickles. We were ignorant of the fact that the bite of any fly causes 

 typhoid fever as we were taught that the cause of the diseases is the 

 Bacillus typhosus. His argument is based on the supposition that 

 such a department would control "methods of healing" or thera- 

 peutics, whereas it would have nothing to do with the practice of 

 medicine and should not. 



(Speech of the Hon. John D. Works, of California, in the Senate 

 of the United States, April 29th & 30th, 1912).— Henry Skinner. 



Entomological Literatiare. 



COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 

 tomolog:j- of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and 

 Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomologj' will not be noted; 

 but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- 

 ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 

 The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 

 In the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all 

 dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a 

 record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new 

 North American form. 



For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 



4— The Canadian Entomologist. 5— Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. 

 6 — Journal, New York Entomological Society. 7— U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 — The Entomolo- 

 gist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9— The Entomologist, London. 



