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Garbage 160 



Excreta 161 



Carcasses 161 



Miscellaneous Breeding Places 162 



Palliative Measures 162 



XI. Control of Flies in Barn Yards, Pig Pens and Chicken Yards . . . 167 



Repression of Flies in Barn Yard 167 



Fly Control in Pig Lots and Pens 170 



Prevention of Fly Breeding in Chicken Houses and Yards . . . 173 



XII. Myiasis — Types of Injury and Life History, and Habits of Species 



Concerned 175 



Tissue-Destroying Forms 176 



Subdermal Migratory Species 182 



Intestinal and Urogenital Myiasis 190 



Forms Producing Myiasis in Head Passages 193 



Bloodsucking Forms 195 



Some Bibliographical References 196 



XIII. Myiasis — Its Prevention and Treatment 200 



Tissue-Destroying Forms 200 



Subdermal Migratory Species 204 



Species Causing Intestinal and Urogenital Myiasis 205 



Species Infesting Head Passages 207 



Bloodsucking Species 208 



XIV. Diseases Transmitted by Bloodsucking Flies 209 



Plant Organisms Carried by Bloodsucking Flies 209 



Thallophyta: Fungi: Schizomycetes : Bacteriacese 209 



Thallophyta: Fungi: Schizomycetes: Coccacese 210 



Diseases of Unknown or Uncertain Origin 211 



Animal Organisms Transmitted by Bloodsucking Flies 212 



Protozoa 212 



Mastigophora : Binucleata: Hsemoproteidse 212 



Mastigophora : Binucleata: Leucocytozoidae 214 



Mastigophora: Binucleata: Trypanosomidse 214 



Mastigophora: Binucleata: Leptomonidae 219 



Masti^'oifiiora: Spirochsetacea : Spirochsetidse 216 



Telosporidia: Usemogregarinida : Haeniogregarinidae 219 



Metazoa 220 



Nemathelniinthes: Nematoda: Filariida? 220 



Bibliography 220 



XV. Biological Notes on the Bloodsucking Flies 223 



Family Chironomid^ 223 



Midges 223 



Family Simuliid^ 224 



Buffalo Gnats 224 



Family Psychodid^ 226 



Pappataci Flies 226 



Family Culicid^ 228 



Family Tabanid.e 228 



Horse Flies 228 



Family Muscid^ 228 



Bloodsucking Fly Larvae 228 



Biting Species of Musca 229 



True Biting Flies 229 



Stable Flies 230 



