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A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE ON THE REDUVIID 
GENUS TRIATOMA (HEMIP.) 1 
By Roland F. Hussey. 
The genus Triatoma has received much attention during 
recent years, both from the entomological and from the medical 
viewpoints. Chagas’ discovery that these insects may serve as 
intermediate hosts in the transmission of trypanosomal diseases 
of the American tropics awakened an active interest in this genus 
among Brazilian and Argentine workers, and as a result nu- 
merous papers have been published on the biology and taxonomy 
of the group. Among these are two very important contribu- 
tions — summaries, in fact, of our knowledge of the genus Triatoma 
—which may be called to the attention of entomologists in 
general. 
The first of these is the “Revisao do genero Triatoma Lap.,” 
by Dr. Arthur Neiva, of Rio de Janeiro. During the years 1910 
to 1914, Dr. Neiva published a scries of thirteen papers on this 
genus, some dealing with the biology of the Brazilian species, 
some with the medical aspects of their ecology, and some with 
their taxonomy. After studying the collections of the principal 
museums in Europe and in North and South America, he des- 
1 Contributions from the Entomological Laboratories of the Bussey Institution, Harvard 
University, No. 204. 
