ILLUSTRATIONS
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Photograph of enlarged model of the house-fly (Musca domestica) Frontispiece
1. Pediculus vestimenti 2
2. Pediculus vestimenti (dorsal and ventral views) 6
3. Cimex lectularius (male) 24
4. Egg of Cimex lectularius 28
5. Newly hatched young of Cimex lectularius 29
6. Pulex irritans (female) 36
7. Larva of Pulex irritans 39
8. Pupa of flea 41
9. Ceratophyllus gallinulae (male and female) 44
10. Ephestia kühniella. Moth-infested biscuit 47
11. Ephestia kühniella 49
12. Ephestia kühniella (larva and pupa) 50
13. Corcyra cephalonica. Moth-infested biscuit 51
14. Eggs of Musca domestica 59
15. Eggs of M. domestica 60
16. Abdomen of female house-fly, showing the extended ovipositor 61
17. Mature larva of M. domestica 62
18. ‘Nymph’ of M. domestica dissected out of pupal-case about thirty hours after pupation 63
19. Pupal-case or puparium of M. domestica from which the imago has emerged 64
20. M. domestica in the act of regurgitating food 65
21. Foot of a fly, showing hairs bearing bacteria 69
22. Chart illustrating the relation of the numerical abundance of house-flies to summer diarrhoea in the city of Manchester in 1904 71
23. Latrine-fly (Fannia scalaris) 75
24. Larva of F. canicularis 76
25. Blow-fly or blue-bottle (Calliphora erythrocephala) 77
26. Green-bottle (Lucilia caesar) 79
27. Flesh-fly (Sarcophaga carnaria) 80
28. Side view of blow-fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) 81
29. Trombidium holosericeum (female) 89
30. Leptus autumnalis = larva of Trombidium holosericeum 90
31. Leptus autumnalis, with the so-called proboscis 92
32. Leptus autumnalis 93
33. Pediculoides ventricosus (male and female) 96
34. Demodex in hair-follicle of dog. Demodex folliculorum 98
35. Sarcoptes scabiei (female) 100
36. Sarcoptes scabiei (male) 101
37. One of the legs of Sarcoptes scabiei showing the stalked sucker and the curious ‘cross-gartering.’ 102
38. A diagrammatic view of the tunnel made by the female of Sarcoptes scabiei, with the eggs she has laid behind her as she burrows deeper and deeper 104
39. A female Sarcoptes scabiei, with four eggs in different stages of development 105
40. Nephrophages sanguinarius (male and female) 110
41. Evolution of Argas persicus 113
42. Ixodes ricinus (mouth-parts of the female) 114
43. Argas reflexus (female) 115
44. Ornithodorus moubata (an unfed female) 116
45. Ornithodorus moubata (female) 117
46. Ixodes ricinus (male and female) 118
47. Ixodiphagus caucurtei laying eggs in the nymph of Ixodes ricinus 120
48. Hirudo medicinalis 124
49. View of the internal organs of Hirudo medicinalis 126
50. Head of a leech (Hirudo medicinalis) 130
51. Hirudo medicinalis 133
52. Cocoon of the medicinal leech 142
53. A Nephelis forming its cocoon and withdrawing from it 143
54. Cocoons of Nephelis 144
55. A leech-farm in the south of France 145
56. Glossosiphonia heteroclita, with eggs and emerging embryos 146
57. Helobdella stagnalis, with adhering young 147
58. Limnatis nilotica 150
59. Anterior sucker of Hirudo medicinalis 152
60. The Japanese variety of Haemadipsa zeylanica 156
61. Haemadipsa zeylanica (from above) 157
62. Haemadipsa zeylanica (head) 158
63. Haemadipsa zeylanica (land-leeches), on the earth 159
THE
MINOR HORRORS OF WAR