The mixtures of resmethrin and piperonyl butoxide in acetone were applied topically to adults of the house fly, Musca domestica L. The dosage-mortality relations were analysed by fitting a mathematical model proposed by Hewlett(1969) to the data,
y=a+b_1 log z_1+b_2z_2/(c+z_2),
where y is probit mortality, z_1=dose of resmethrin, and z_2=dose of piperonyl butoxide, a, b_1,b_2 and c are parameters. The model was fairly applicable to the data, and a mixture with an indefinitely large ratio of piperonyl butoxide was estimated to be 4.25 times as toxic as resmethrin alone.