Contribuição ao conhecimento das larvas dos Sarcophagidae com especial referência ao esqueleto cefálico (Diptera)

The author publishes a comparative study of eleven species of Sarcophagid flies and gives a redescription of the larval stages of Musca domestica L. as a model. The work was made upon material obtained from Sarcophagidae reared in the Laboratory. Some of them were parasitic flies from Insects and other invertebrates. Protodexia was reared using the domestic cockroach (Periplaneta americana) instead of the Orthroptera or Mantodea its true hosts. The larvae obtained by dissection of female abdomen was reared in flesh or agarhorse serum. The last proceeding is very good since the skins of all larval stages can be conserved for study and it is possible to observe the ecdyses. Some of the larvae prefer dead snails (Bulimulus and Fruticicola) and is able to destroy larvae of other species found in the same molluscs. The first stage maggot can be obtained by dissections of dried female specimens and furnishes very good characters to determine the species and establish the philogenetical relationship of the genera in the family. Th pseudocephalon presents very curious ornaments or grooves in some species (Oxysarcodexia). Sometimes there is a pigmented capsule covering a great part of the pseudocephalon (Titanogrypa). The cephaloskeletal sclerietes have a peculiar shape and constitution for every species, mainly in the first stage maggot.

Contribuição ao conhecimento do gênero Zelurus Hahn (Spiniger auct. ) (Reduviidae, Hemiptera)

In the present paper the authors describe the male and female genitalia of various species of Zelurus (=Spiniger). There were not always obtained reliable specific characters, specially in nearly related species. Futhermore there were studied 59 species and subspecies, from Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Argentine. New locality records and synonymic notes are given and some allotypes are designated. Eight species and two subspecies, from Brazil and Argentine, proved to new to science.

Contribuição ao conhecimento das paralisias periféricas, múltiplas, uni-laterais, dos nervos craneanos (Síndrome de Villaret)

O autor descreve longamente uma observação dêste raro síndromo de lesão dos troncos nervosos periféricos dos nervos craneanos. No histórico do paciente, apurou a Micose pulmonar, pelo Neogeotrichum pulmoneum e úlcera estomacal, havendo-se curado de ambas. O síndromo nervoso atual foi de origem traumática, por arma de fogo, penetrando a bala no espaço retro-parotidiano e lesando, com maior ou menor intensidade, os nervos glossofaringeu, pneumogástrico, espinhal, hipoglosso e o simpatico cervical esquerdos. Além do síndromo nervoso, teve o paciente um aneurisma da artéria carótida primitiva, que foi ligado.

Contribuição para o conhecimento do tifo exantemático neotrópico no Brasil

Os autores mostraram a necessidade de estudar minuciosamente os fócos da doença para o melhor conhecimento das questões epidemiológicas e clínicas da mesma. Mostraram que os Veados e Cabritos pódem desempenhar papel importante na difusão do virus. Os autores dão gráficos sôbre a reação de Weil-Felix com nove Proteus em homens e animais.