CONTENTS 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. Introduction .,";.. . . . . . i 



II. Diptera General description and classification . 12 



III. Biting-Flies as carriers of disease .... 25 



IV. Orthorrhapha Nematocera ' . . . . . 32 



V. Family Psychodidae (Moth-flies and Sand-flies) . . 35 



VI. Diseases carried by Phlebotomus Pappataci Fever . 44 



VII. Family Culicidae (Gnats or Mosquitoes) ... 50 

 VIII. Culicidae (Mosquitoes) continued. Classification . 75 



IX. Anopheline-transmitted diseases . "... . 119 



X. Culicinae . . j - ' . t ; . ^ . . . 165 



XI. Diseases transmitted by Culicinae. Yellow Fever, 



Dengue, Bird Malaria, etc. . : \. r: $ * . . 177 



XII. Diseases transmitted by Anophelinae and Culicinae. 



Filariasis ... . . .. . . 202 



XIII. Orthorrhapha Brachycera . ,* ..... . . 224 



XIV. Family Tabanidae (Breeze-flies, Cleggs, Horse-flies, 



Gad-flies, Seroot-flies) " .* '. . . . 226 



XV. Cyclorrhapha Schizophora . . ' . " ' '" ". . . 239 



XVI. The Tsetse-flies Genus Glossina Wied., 1830 . . 243 



XVII. Glossina and Disease. The Trypanosomes "" . . 293 



XVIII. Glossina and Disease (continued) \ . . . 300 



XIX. Stomoxys . '. "' '' '. ' .' . .; . . . . 355 



XX. Infections transmitted by Stomoxys .'""''". . . 361 



XXI. Lyperosia . ' . ' . . . . . . '. " 369 



XXII. Family Hippoboscidae (Tick-flies) '. . . .372 



XXIII. Infections transmitted by Hippoboscidae . . . 379 

 INDEX . , . 387 



