diff --git a/anki/latex.py b/anki/latex.py
index f46e0a654..e4d7fbbb9 100644
--- a/anki/latex.py
+++ b/anki/latex.py
@@ -64,9 +64,6 @@ def _latexFromHtml(col, latex):
     # entitydefs defines nbsp as \xa0 instead of a standard space, so we
     # replace it first
     latex = latex.replace(" ", " ")
-    for match in re.compile("&([a-z]+);", re.IGNORECASE).finditer(latex):
-        if match.group(1) in entitydefs:
-            latex = latex.replace(match.group(), entitydefs[match.group(1)])
     latex = re.sub("<br( /)?>", "\n", latex)
     # replace <div> etc with spaces
     latex = re.sub("<.+?>", " ", latex)