First report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / by Andrew Balfour.
- Balfour, Andrew
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: First report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum / by Andrew Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![At Roseires, in November, I found numerous specimens of beetles belonging to the Cantharida?, genus Mylabris. Captain Ensor reports them as being common Blister beetles in the Kassala district, where they are called Fasseea. Captain Rivers states that they occur in great numbers in Kordofan. Probably several other species exist. Samples of similar vesicating insects from South Africa have appeared on the London market, and yielded from 1'09 to 102 per cent, of cantharidin.' Mylabris bifasciata of the Cape of Good Hope was found by Braithwaite^ to be extremely rich in cantharidin. It is quite possible that these beetles may be of some economic value. The subject seems worthy of further investigation, [These beetles are figured on Plate A, and a note regarding them is appended to the plate.—F. V. T.] Dispensatory of the United States ' P..J. Tr. xviii. 24§](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21363262_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
