Recent advances in medical entomology

510 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETYor TROPICALMEDICINEAND HYGIENE,VOL. 77, No. 4, 510 (1983)

Joint meeting with the Royal Entomological

Society of London

Royal Army Medical College, 9th March, 1983

Recent advances

in medical

This highly successful meeting was attended by over 100 Fellows and guests. Its purpose wasto bring together those members of the two Societies who were interested in medical entomology and a number of demonstrations were shown which served as foci for discussion by those who attended. The list of demonstrations shown was as follows: M. AIRD, J. W. MAUNDER & R. J. F. ROBINSON (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, LondonWCZE 7H7’) Delousing of clothes and bedding using a tumbler dryer, C. J, BOASE (FBC Ltd., ChesterfordPark ResearchStation, Saffron Walden, EssexCBZO IXL) Determination of adult mosquito

density in trials of ULV insecticides. N.R.H. BURGESS, K. N. CHETWYN & A. M. WALKER (Royal Army Medical College,Millbank, LondonSWI P 4RJ)

(1) Comparative field trials of cockroach traps, (2) Field trials of an ultrasonic cockroach repeller, (3) Control of the salt marsh mosquito Aedesdetrituswith a juvenile (growth regulator) hormone Altosid SRlO. P. S. CRANSTON(British Museum(Natural History), CromwellRoad, London SW7 5BD) Haemoglobins -chironomid allergens. C. F. CURTIS (London School of Hygieneand TropicalMedicine)Assessment of the impact of chlorpyrifos resistance in Culex quinquefasciatuson the control programme in Dar es Salaam. A. HELLER-HAUPT (Lo&n Schoolof Hygieneand Tropical Medicine) Host immunisation with tick vaccine for controlling tick infestation. J. HEMINGWAY (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) The differential suppression of organophosphate resistancein Culex quinquefasciatus and Anophelesstephensi by the synergists IBP, DEF and TPP. R. P. LANE (BritishMuseum)(1) Dimorphic abdominal structures in male Lutzomyia longipalpis,(2) Scanning electron microscope studies of sandfly larvae. B. R. LAURENCE (LondonSchoolof Hygieneand TropicalMedicine)and J. A. PICKETT (RothamstedExperimentalStation,

entomology

Harper&n, Herts) Oviposition pheromone in Culex mosquitoes. D. J, LEWIS (British Museum) The distribution of Phlebotomus.D. J. LEWIS & W. B~~TTIKER (British Museum)The phlebotomine san-

dfIies of Saudi Arabia. T. S, MAIL, J. CHADWICK & M. J. LEHANE (Schoolof Animal Biology, University Collegeof North Wales,Bangor,GwyneddLLS7 ZUW, Determining the age of adult Stomoxyscalcitransin the

field. [pteridine

accumulation].

A. MCCRAE (19

Davenant Road, Oxford, OX2 8BT) Studies in the aquatic ecology of Anophelesgambiaes.1. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES & FOOD (Slough Laboratory,Slough,BerksSL3 7HJ) Resistance in UK houseflies. G. R. PORT (Departmentof Agricultural Biology, The University, Newcastleupon Tyne NE1 7Ru) and P. F. L. BOREHAM (Queensland Institute of MedicalResearch) Behaviour of Anopheles gambiaeS.S. in a Gambian village. G. R. PORT (University of Newcastle)& T. J. WILKES (ImperialCollege,London)

Yellow fever in the Gambia: the 1978 epidemic. R. J. POST (LiverpoolSchoolof TropicalMedicine,Pembroke Place, LiverpoolL3 SQA) A new species in the West African Simuliumdamnosum complex? A. T. REES, W. N. FIELD & J. M. HITCHEN(Dept. of Health Sciences,BirminghamPolytechnic,Peny Barr, BirminghamB42 ZSU) Esterase activity in malathion tolerant and susceptible strains of Aedesaegyptiand a simple field technique for its detection. E. J. SHELLEY (British Museum)Simuliidae and onchocerciasis in Ecuador. D. J. TARRY (CentralVeterinaryLaboratory, New Haw, Wqbridge, Surrey) Flies and disease.

These titles give a good indication of the range of active field and laboratory research at present being conducted in the United Kingdom on the vectors of human and other diseases. Anyone interested in any particular subject should write to the first scientist mentioned at the address given in the title of the demonstration.