INDEX
Reading edition
Agramonte, Dr., 105
Albertus Magnus, 135
Allen, H. Warner, 151
Anobium paniceum (biscuit-‘weevil’), 111, 112
A. striatum, 111
Apodemus sylvaticus (field-mouse), 153, 154
Anopheles maculipennis, 42, 65, 106;
head of, 49;
distribution of, 51;
hibernation of, 54;
breeding habits of, 55-6;
sensibility to light, 59;
and colour, 60-3, 110;
extermination of, 63;
buzzing of, 73-4;
eggs of, 78;
larva, 86
Austen, 55
Bacillus lactis aerogenes, B. cloacae, 23
Bell, 135
Bellesme, Jousset de, 72
Biscuit-‘weevil,’ 111-13
Blandford, Dr., 135, 140
Blattodea, 4
Bombay Plague Commission, 137, 145
Bot- or warble-fly, 25, 27;
effect on cattle, 40;
cure for, 41
British Medical Journal, 24, 63
Browne, Sir Samuel James, 27
Cambon, 59
Canada, 31, 32
Carpenter, Prof. G. H., 36
Carroll, Dr., 105
Ceratopogon, 42
Challenger, H.M.S., 16
Churchill’s Voyages, 142 n.
Cropper, J., 63
Cockroaches (Periplaneta), 1, 3;
food of, 8, 11, 13, 17
Culex, 42, 50, 51, 55, 58, 79, 88, 90, 106-7
Duncan, P. M., 21 n.
Dusaussois, 148
Ectobia, 4
Elephantiasis, 47
Entomology, Washington Bureau of, 114, 118
Ephestia cautella, 114, 115, 117, 121
E. kühniella, 115, 116, 117
Field-mouse, 154-9
Fig-moth, 114;
ravages of, 117-22;
prevention of infection by, 123
Filaria, 47
Filaria rhytipleurites, 21
Filaria labiato-papillosa, 131
Finlay (of Havana), 104
Finsch, 53
Gardiner, J. Stanley, 73
Gesner, 136
Gleichen-Russworm, von, 73
Grassi, 54, 55, 68, 77, 78, 79, 84
Gray, 58
Hadwen, Dr., 31, 32
Halobates, 2
Helm, 135
Hewitt, T. R., 36
Hindle, Mr., 131
Howard, 58, 71, 74, 77, 94
Hypoderma, 25, 28
Hypoderma bovis, 31, 32;
eggs of, 34
Hypoderma lineatum, 31, 32;
eggs of, 34, 38
Imms, Mr., 31
Infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), 132
Irish Department of Agriculture, 36
Ismailia, 98
Jenyns, 136, 141
Johnston (of Baltimore), 65, 66, 67
Joly, 74
Kerschbaumer, 57
Lantz, Dr., 147 n.
Larva, of bot-flies, 28, 35;
of mosquitos, 80-5, 90, 91, 97;
of yellow-fever mosquito, 107;
of stable-fly, 130
Latter, 4
Lazear, Dr., 105
Lefroy, Prof., 63
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 55
Lyddeker, 146
Malaria, 48, 104;
prevention of, 98
Maxim, Sir Hiram, 75
Mayer, 67
Miall and Denny, 5
Microlepidoptera, 116 n.
Morrell, Dr. C. Conyers, 21, 23
Moseley, Prof., 16
Mosquitos, biting apparatus, 43;
wings, 50;
hibernation of female, 54;
food of, 64-7;
experiments with, 60-3, 67-8;
how to avoid, 63-4;
auditory organs of, 65;
buzzing of, 68-74;
eggs of, 76
Moufet, 3
Muridae, 154, 156
Mus or Epimys, 135
Mus rattus or Epimys rattus, 135 n., 136, 139, 144, 145
M. decumanus or Norvegicus, 135 n., 137, 140, 141, 142, 145
M. alexandrinus, 140
Musca domestica, 125, 126
Neumann, R. O. and O., 109
Nuttall, Professor, 47, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, 71, 77
Ormerod, Miss, 28, 30
Oestridae (bot-flies), 28
Pennant, 138, 139, 141
Perez, J., 71, 72
Periplaneta orientalis, 4, 5, 16
P. americana, 4
P. germanica, 5, 16
Plague conveyed by rats, 149
Port Swettenham, 98
Ptinidae, 111
Pupa of mosquitos, 92-5, 97
Pyralidae, 116 n.
Rats, black, or Old-English, 137;
brown, 141;
ravages of 145-9;
estimated annual damage by, 149;
diseases conveyed by, 149;
destruction of, 150, 152;
in the trenches, 151
Reed, Dr. Walter, 105
Ross, Sir Ronald, 97, 98, 104
Sam Browne belts, 26
Sigmodon (rice-rat), 140
Smyrna, Report of the fig-moth in, 114 n.
Smyth, E. G., 118
Sphex (or Chlorion), 20
Spirogyra, 84
Stable-fly, 125;
food of, 128;
diseases conveyed by, 131, 132
Stegomyia calopus or fasciata, 101, 105;
domesticated, 108;
bites of, 108, 110
Stomoxys calcitrans (stable-fly), 125;
distribution of, 127;
eggs of, 129;
diseases conveyed by, 131, 132, 133;
extermination of, 133
Symbius blattarum, 21
Thayer, Dr., 53
Thomas, Oldfield, 140
Trichinella spiralis, 149
Trypanosoma, 131
‘Warbled’ hides, 30
Watson, Dr. Malcolm, 98
Weaver, A. de P., 74, 75
Weinland, 73
Whelan, R. G., 37
White, Gilbert, 5
Wilson, Edwin, 69, 73
Xestobium tessellatum, 111
Yellow-fever, 101-3;
localities affected by, American commission on, 105
Yellow-fever mosquito, 101, 104;
metamorphosis of, 109
Yersin, 149
AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE AND CO. LTD. COLCHESTER, LONDON AND ETON