ANIMAL NAMES I3 



of weak-fish and in no way related to the trouts. The trout 

 of the West Indian streams is a sort of mullet. 



Silver-fish, jelly-fish, star-fish, etc., have of course nothing to 

 do with fishes. 



Jigger is the name applied to a kind of flea which burrows 

 in the skin. But with us the term is usually bestowed upon 

 a mite which further south is called bete-rouge or red-bug, 

 though it is not a bug at all. 



The name bee-fly is given to quite a lot of flies of different 

 groups which look Hke bees or live with bees. Deer-flies are of 

 two main types, deer-flies proper, related to the horse-flies, 

 and the larger black-flies. 



May-flies, stone-flies, alder-flies, dragon-flies, lace-winged 

 flies, green-flies, saw-flies, scorpion-flies, butterflies, and many 

 other kinds of "flies" have nothing at ah to do with the true 

 flies. In the same way June bugs and potato-bugs are not 

 bugs but beetles; black-beetles are cockroaches, not beetles, 

 and so it goes. 



Any creature that even most distantly suggests radiation 

 from a central point, even by merely running equally weU in 

 any direction, is in danger of being called a spider or a scorpion. 

 The "Spider ground" near Provincetown is famous for the 

 abundance on it of sea-spiders, sometimes called sea-scorpions, 

 which in this case are basket-stars, related to the brittle-stars 

 and other star-fishes. Elsewhere the terms sea-spider and sea- 

 scorpion are used for pycnogonids, for crinoids, and for various 

 other creatures. 



The term worm is applied to anything long and soft and 

 legless or with inconspicuous legs, quite regardless of its zoo- 

 logical affinities. Thus blind-worms are a sort of legless lizard; 

 tongue-worms are a kind of enormous mite, related to the 

 spiders; cabbage-worms are the young of butterflies; apple- 

 worms are the young of moths; chestnut-worms and acorn- 

 worms are the young of beetles; vinegar-worms, hookworms, 

 pin-worms, Guinea- worms, etc., are nematodes; tape-worms 

 are a sort of flat-worm. Most sea-worms are jointed worms 



