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INDEX 



Labial palpi, 48 

 Labium, 40 

 Labrum, 42 

 Larva, 5, 7, 36 

 Leeuwenhoek, 38 

 Legs, structure of, 30 

 Leptopsylla musculi, 89, 103 

 Linnaeus, 4, 75 

 Listropsylla, 50 



Macrochiroptera, 107 

 Malacopsylla, 80 

 M. androcli, 14 

 M. grossiventris, 14 

 Malpighi, 59 

 Malpighian tubes, 59 

 Manchuria, plague in, 95 

 Mandibles, 42, 48 

 Marmots, 95 

 Marsupials, 14 

 Maxillae, 40, 48 

 Maxillary palpi, 40 

 Metamorphosis, 5 

 Microchiroptera, 107 

 Monkeys, 12 

 Mouotremes, 15 

 Mouth-parts, 39 

 Mouth, 54 

 Muscles, 33 

 Mus, genus, 97 

 Myriapods, 1 

 Myrmecobius, 15 



Needles for dissecting, 61 

 Nervous system, 44 

 Nycteribia, 26 



Ogata, 87 

 Orthoptera, 34 

 Otospermophilus beecheyi, 98 



Oudemans, his classification, 110 

 Ovaries, 51 

 Oviedo, 74, 76 



Palaeopsylla, 19 



Pariodontis riggenbachi, 69 



Penguins, 11 



Performing fleas, 72 



Petrels, 11 



Pharynx, 54 



Pharyngeal pump, 54 



Phoridse, 35 



Pigeon-flea, 10 



Plague, 84 



Plague and fleas, 87 



in Egypt, 86 



of London, 85 



medieval precautions, 21 



transmission of, 44 



Platypsyllus, 26 

 Polyctenes, 26 

 Protestant and Catholic, 9 

 Puffins, 11 



Pulex irritans, 4, 19, 63, 75, 95 

 Pulicidse, 17, 109 

 Pupa, 7 

 Pygidiurn, 46, 50 



Rat-fleas, 104, 105 



and man, 101 

 Rats and mice, fleas of, 97 

 Rectal glands, 57 

 Rectum, 57 

 Rectum, discharge of blood 



from, 44 



Reptile, flea on a, 15 

 Rock-pipit, 11 

 Rodents, 13 

 Rostrum, 40 

 Rothschild, Mr Charles, 70, 101 



