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Contents 
The bed-bug. Other bed-bugs. 
Parasitic Diptera, or flies. 
Psychodidae, or moth flies. Phlebotominae. Culicidae, or mosquitoes. 
Simuliidae, or black-flies. Chironomidae, or midges. Tabanidae, or 
horse-flies. Leptidae or snipe-flies. Oestridas, or bot-flies. Muscidae, 
the stable-fly and others. 
Siphonaptera, or fleas. 
The fleas affecting man, the dog, cat, and rat. 
The true chiggers, or chigoes. 
CHAPTER IV 
ACCIDENTAL OR FACULTATIVE PARASITES. 131-143 
Acarina, or mites. 
Myriapoda, or centipedes and millipedes. 
Lepidopterous larvae. 
Coleoptera, or beetles. 
Dipterous larvae causing myiasis. 
Piophila casei, the cheese skipper. Chrysomyia macellaria, the screw- 
worm fly. Calliphorinae, the blue-bottles. Muscinae, the house or 
typhoid fly, and others. Anthomyiidas, the lesser house-fly and others. 
Sarcophagidae, the flesh-flies. 
CHAPTER V 
ARTHROPODS AS SIMPLE CARRIERS OF DISEASE. 144-163 
The house or typhoid fly as a carrier of disease. 
Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable-fly. 
Other arthropods which may serve as simple carriers of pathogenic organisms. 
CHAPTER VI 
ARTHROPODS AS DIRECT INOCULATORS OF DISEASE GERMS 164-174 
Some illustrations of direct inoculations of disease germs by arthropods. 
The r61e of fleas in the transmission of the plague. 
CHAPTER VII 
ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC ORGAN¬ 
ISMS . 175-185 
Insects as intermediate hosts of tape-worms. 
Arthropods as intermediate hosts of nematode worms. Filariasis and mosqui¬ 
toes. 
Other nematode parasites of man and animals. 
CHAPTER VIII 
ARTHROPODS AS ESSENTIAL HOSTS OF PATHOGENIC PRO¬ 
TOZOA . 186-211 
Mosquitoes and malaria. 
Mosquitoes and yellow fever. 
