The Extirpation of the Tsetse-fly: a Correction and a Suggestion

Abstract

IN my letter published in NATURE of October 25 on the breeding haunts of the tsetse-fly discovered by Dr. Bagshawe, I stated that there were no banana plantations on the deserted island of Kimmi, on the Victoria Nyanza, and suggested that the flies there must have some other breeding-places than the plantations. I am informed, however, by my friend and colleague Lieut. A. C. H. Gray, R.A.M.C., who has just started for Uganda, that be and the late Lieut. F. M. G. Tulloch, when collecting flies an Kimmi, came across deserted banana plantations, overgrown by the forest and bearing ripe bananas (a sure sign that no natives visit them or know of them). I must correct, therefore, my former statement.