268 ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES. 



the preceding one into our apartments, and covers itself 

 with dust, in order the more readily to fall upon its 

 enemy ; but man is not sufficiently acquainted with 

 its habits, to make war in common with it on this 

 miserable parasite. We ought for this purpose to place 

 the masked reduvius under the protection of the law, 

 to collect the various kinds together, and to offer pre- 

 miums for the most vigorous races. 



