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INDEX. 



Bees, excreta of, infecting GalU- 



jpliora with Nosema apis, 45 ; 



Nosema apis pathogenic to 



bumble- and mason-, 44 ; dis- 

 eases of, 104. 

 Behar, plague in, 189. 

 Belgian Congo (see Congo). 

 bellator, Anopheles. 

 Bellows bug (see Triatoma sangui- 



suga). 

 Bembex, 104 ; preying on flies. 111. 

 Bengal, Slegomyia and Phlebotomus 



in, 142; plague in, 189 ; malaria 



and inosquitos in, 195. 

 Benzine, vaseline and, against fowl 



pests, 30 ; effect of vapour of, on 



bugs, 62 ; against lice on cattle, 



118. 

 Beriberi, etiology of, 67. 

 Bibio longipes, Scatophaga sterco- 



raria preying on, 56. 

 bieolor, Stibasoma. 

 bif'urcaius, Anopheles ; Epiderm- 



optes. 

 bigeminuvi, Piroplasma. 

 Biliary fever. Equine, transmitting 



agents of, 104. 

 bilobatus, Epidermoptes. 

 bipunctatus, Culex. 

 bipunctattim, SimuUum. 

 Birch-tar oil, against warble-flies, 



134. 

 Birds, as a food supply for Olossina 



morsitans, 75, 97, 103, 142; 



checking sheep flies in Australia, 



94; Argas tniniatus on, 102a; 



Saprol in water not harmful to, 



1 28 ; preying on tsetse-flies in 



Nyasaland, 104. 

 Bird-lime, of little use against Glos- 



sina morsitans, 104, 141 ; against 



Glossina jjalpalis, 122, 141, 205. 

 biseriatum, Menopon. 

 Biskra, Phlebotomus in, 199. 

 Biskra boil, connection between 



Phlebotomus and, 199. 

 Biting flies, transmitting Mai de 



Caderas, 16, 176 ; in B. Columbia, 



198. 

 b ivittatum , 8 imuliuin . 

 Black Flies (see SimuUum). 

 Black Sea Coast, malaria on, 108; 



Stegomyia fasciato. and yellow 



fever on, 109. 

 Black snake, Phlebotomus vexator 



and ticks on, 42. 

 Blackwater fever, in Khodesia, 



1 49 ; relation between malaria 



and, 149. 

 blanchardi , Kirk ia. 

 Bloodsucking Cone-nose (see Tria- 

 toma sanguisuga). 

 Blow-flies, observations on, 16, 85, 



166. 

 Blue-bottle fly (see Calliphora). 



Bolivia, Mai de Caderas in, 109. 



Bombay Island, Anopheles in, 192. 



Boophilus (see Margaropus). 



Borax, against flies. 111, 178, 179. 



Bornasche Krankheit, disease of 

 horses in Germany, 26. 



Boselaphus (Bubalis) lichtensteini, 

 Kirkia blanchardi in frontal sinus 

 of, 91. 



Bot-fly larvae, in human eye, 6 ; 

 powers of resistance of, 64 ; in 

 Cape Colony, 203 ; spp. occurring 

 in French W. Africa, 91 ; new sp. 

 of, from E. Africa, 91 ; (see 

 Gastrophihis and Uypoderma). 



Bothriothorax clavicornis, parasite 

 of flies, 134. 



boueti, Cim,ex. 



Bovine piroplasmosis in France, 143. 



Bovine anaplasmosis in Argentine, 

 172. 



bovis, Hypoderma. 



boylei, Trypanosoma. 



Brachystegia, 148. 



brasiliensis, Triatoma ; Xenopsylla. 



Brazil, ticks in, 57 : Tabanidae i i, 

 87, 106 ; the blood- sucking Rodu- 

 viids of, 107, 125; Mai de 

 Caderas in, 109, 176; human 

 trypanosomiasis in, 124; disease- 

 carrying Anopheles in, 133; Steg- 

 omyia eradication in, 164, 189 ; 

 SimuUum exiguum in, 27. 



breinli, Neosquamomyia. 



brevipalpis, Glossina. 



Brevirhynchus, 82. 



British Columbia, tick paralysis in, 

 105; SimuUum in, IGS; Tabani- 

 dae in, 196. 



British C4uiana (see Guiana). 



British Somaliland (see Somaliland). 



Brittany, Anopheles in, 180. 



Brown- tail Moth, caterpillar causing 

 rash, 99. 



Brown Tick (see Bhipicephalus 

 appendiculatus ). 



Bubalis major, in tsetse-fly areas, 

 77; Oestrids in frontal sinus of, 91. 



Bubalus pumilus, followed by Glos- 

 sina morsitans and G. longipalpis, 

 11. 



Buffalo, Glossina associated with, 

 32, 77, 171; Indo-Chinese surra 

 in, 42. 



Buffalo Gnats (see SimuUum). 



Bugs on bats, 95, 173; (see Bei- 

 bugs). 



Bugalla, Glossina fuseipes in, 30. 



Burma, Anopheles barbirostris carry- 

 ing malaria in, 133. 



Burning of herbage against ticks, 

 114. 



Bushbuck, 84 ; experimentally in- 

 fected with Trypanosoma di- 

 morphon, 11. 



