cine. Report for the year lUll. This report deals with helm initio log}', protozoology and arthropodology and contains a few pages on keratosis and climatic bubo. In lielmiiithology much work has been done on Onchocerca yibsoni, the filaria which lies coiled up in subcutaneous nodules in Australian cattle, and over which there has been an outcry in London. The worm has beeu re-examined in respe...

Tularaemia, a disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, is a re-emerging zoonosis in the Netherlands. After sporadic human and hare cases occurred in the period 2011 to 2014, a cluster of F. tularensis-infected hares was recognised in a region in the north of the Netherlands from February to May 2015. No human cases were identified, including after active case finding. Presence of...

Egri et al. (2012) investigated how the attractiveness of substrates to tabanids (horseflies) varied when painted with different numbers, orientation, and density of stripes. The basic experimental design was a randomized complete block design where the number of flies attracted was counted at regular intervals. The authors analyzed this data using a complete-randomized design ANOVA which is in...

The blood feeding habit, especially among opportunist feeders such as tabanids and Stomoxys is known to result in transmission of diseases for which the vectors are not the obligate or alternate hosts. Thus, mechanical transmission of trypanosomes such as T. vivax can occur in cattle herds outside tsetse fly areas where tabanids are actively feeding. In the case of Yaws, mechanical transmission...