Note 332 — Chapter I · THE STEAM-SHIP “QUEEN”—THE ORKNEYS AND MAES HOWE—THE SHETLANDS AND THE FÆROE ISLANDS.

“Lappmark’s land-plague,” says Mr Shairp, author of “Up in North” (London: Chapman & Hall, 1872), is of three kinds:

1. Mygg, or long nose (Culex pipiens), the wretch of stinging bite and blasphemous song.

2. Knott (C. reptans), a villain that keeps close to the ground, and avoids horses.

3. Hya or Gnadd (C. pulicaris), the smallest of the family, but when it “sticks,” as the Swedes say, violent itching is the result.