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INSECTS AND MAN 



Mealy-bug, common, 248, 256, 257, 



see also Scale Insects, 

 sugar-cane, 248. 

 Mealy wing, 312. 

 Megachile, see Leaf-cutter Bees. 

 Megilla maculata, see Aphis-eating 



Ladybird. 

 Melolontha hypoleuca, 210. 



vulgaris, see Cockchafer. 

 Melophagus ovinus, see Sheep Tick. 

 Membracidse, 28. 

 Merisus destructor, 80. 

 Metamorphosis, complete, 29. 



incomplete, 29. 

 Metarrhizium anisoplife, see Green 



Muscardine. 

 Midges, 26. 



gall, 34. 



owl, 26, 136. 



sorghum, 250. 



wheat, 297. 

 Mites, 22, 241, 291, 292, 297. 



air-sac, 192. 



cheese, 241, 242, 292. 



chicken itch, 190. 



copra itch, 291, 292. 



follicle, 292. 



grain itch, 291. 



grocers' itch, 292. 



harvest, 293. 



hypopus stage, 241, 243, 244. 



itch, 291, 292. 



mange, 192. 



red, 190, 241. 



water itch, 292. 

 Mixosporidia, 195. 

 Monas prodigiosa, 127. 

 Monedula Carolina, 321. 

 Monilia Candida, 37. 

 Monomoriumpharaonis,see House Ant. 

 Moor ill or evil, 166. 

 " Mosca brava, " 174. 

 Mosquitoes, 26, 88, 113, 114, 119, 

 149, 174, 193, 212, 257. 



breeding places, 97. 



life-history, 101. 



Moths, 18, 26, 33, 37, 38, 64, 68, 

 205, 219. 



brown-tail, 18, 219, 301, 302, 303, 

 306. 



Bugong, 206. 



clearwing, apple, 38. 



clearwing, currant, 38. 



clothes, 26, 237, 271, 272. 



codling, 18, 33, 37. 



Moths, codling, damage by, 74. 

 description of, 77. 

 enemies, 77. 

 history, 74. 

 life-history, 74. 

 gipsy, 18, 64, 246, 301, 302, 303, 



307, 308, 311. 

 damage by, 66. 

 description of, 67. 

 distribution, 67. 

 history, 64. 

 goat, 38, 206. 

 grain, 33. 

 hawk, 26. 

 leaf- rolling, 26. 

 meal, 271. 

 nun, 68. 

 procession, 219. 

 silkworm, 26, 64, 207. 

 tassar silk, 208. 

 tapestry, 272, 273. 

 wood leopard, 37. 

 "Muche,"287. 

 Mule warts, 148. 

 Musca domestica, see House Fly. 

 Muscidae, 27. 



Musciua stabulans, 237, 238. 

 Mutilla antiguensis, 219. 

 Mutillidje, see Cow Ants. 

 Mycetophilidse, see Fungus Gnats. 

 Mylabris cichorii, 216. 



pustulata, 216. 

 Myriapoda, 22. 



Nagana, 130, 135, 173, 174. 



Nemobius sylvestris, see Field Cricket. 

 I Niptus hololeucus, 268. 

 ! Noctuidae, 26, 52. 

 | Nosema apis, 196. 

 bombycis, 195, 196. 



Notonecta unifasciata, 211. 



Novius cardinalis, 73, 298, 299, 300, 

 314. 



Nycteribiidse, see Bat Flies. 



(Ecodoma cephalotes, see Red-headed 



Ant. 



(Ecophylla smaragdina, see Wood Ant. 

 (Estridse, see Bot Flies. 

 (Estrus ovis, see Sheep Bot Fly. 

 Ophionectria coccicola, 35. 

 Ophthalmia, 125, 126. 

 Ornithodorus megnini, see Spinous 



Ear Tick, 

 moubata, see Fever Tick. 



