288 



INDEX. 



Washington, Rocky Mountain 

 spotted fever in, 63. 



Water-fowl, destroying mosquito 

 larvae, 45. 



Water melon, smoke from leaves of, 

 against house-flies, 22. 



Water scorpion (see Nepa cinerea). 



Water spider, preying on Anopheles 

 larvae, 78. 



watsoni. Anopheles. 



Weasel, Echidnophaga gallinacea on, 

 in Upper Egypt, 44. 



wellingtonianus. Anopheles. 



wellmani, Gkrysops. 



West Indies, sanitation in, 69 ; 

 possibly the habitat of Musca 

 leprae, 113 ; Chrysomyia maeel- 

 laria causing myiasis in, 159 ; 

 Dermatobia probably absent from, 

 130. 



Wheat, damaged by sulphur dioxide 

 fumigation on ships, 71 ; house- 

 flies breeding in straw of, 93. 



White Birch, oil of, against house- 

 flies, 206. 



willmori, Anopheles (Neocellia). 



Windward Islands, Dermatobia 

 hominis probably absent from, 

 130. 



Winter green, oil of, against house- 

 flies, 206. 



Wohlfartia {Sarcophaga) magnifica, 

 attacking dogs, 4 ; attacking 

 cattle in Russia, 29 ; attacking 

 man, 29, 31 ; synonyms of, 31 ; 

 infesting sheep in Russia, 159. 



Wood Tick (see Dermacentor ander- 

 soni and D. variabilis). 



woodi, Chrysops. 



Woodpeckers, attacked by larvae of 

 Mydaea, 122. 



Wyoming, life-history and eradi- 

 cation of Melophagus ovinus in, 

 175 ; tick bites causing paralysis 

 in man in, 6 ; Rocky Mountain 

 spotted fever in, 63. 



Xenopsylla cheopis, 100; effects of 

 temperature on, 9, 

 34 ; and plague, 34, 

 205, 206, 209; in 

 Upper Egypt, 44 ; 

 hosts of, in Zanzibar, 



50 ; on Crocidura 

 murina in Cambodia, 

 97 ; the only rat flea 

 in the Philippines,. 

 103; on Damaliscus 

 pygargus in S. Africa, 

 134 ; on rats in Java, 

 34, 205; in N.S. 

 Wales, 206. 



Xenopsylla chephrensis, on Acomys 

 cahirinus in Upper 

 Egypt, 44. 

 „ cleopatrae, infesting- 



Gerbillus pyramidum 

 in Egypt, 44. 

 ,, nubicus, hosts of, in S. 



Africa, 134. 



Xestopsylla gallinacea (see Echid- 

 nophaga). 



Xylol, against lice, 43, 151, 203. 



Yaws, Musca domestica, a doubtful 

 carrier of, in Ceylon, 76. 



Yellow Fever, 138 ; in Mexico, 11 j 

 in Brazil, 12 ; and Stegomyia 

 fasciata in West Africa, 12 ; 

 ducks as preventers of, 25 ; 

 preventive measures against, 

 26 ; measures against intro- 

 duction of, into India, 71 ; 

 measures against introduction 

 of, into Hong Kong, 141; howler 

 monkeys possibly reservoirs of, 

 69, 70 ; and Stegomyia in 

 Trinidad, 83. 



Zanzibar, trypanosomiasis of cattle 

 in, 48 ; insect pests of, 49 ; 

 Ornithodorus and Auchmeromyia 

 absent from, 50 ; Leiognathus 

 morsitans, sp. n., on man in, 

 140. 



Zebra, attacked by Bhinoestrus 

 purpureus, 217. 



ziemanni, Glossina. 



Zinc chloride, against Sar copies cati 

 on cats, 5. 

 „ oxide, for scalded stock, 21. 



sonalis, Tabanus. 



Zululand, . ticks and African Coast 

 fever in, 132 ; plague of Stomoxys- 

 in, 164. 



