INDEX 



Tatusia, see Dasypus. 



Teleost fishes, 113 



Teredo navalis, see Shipworm. 



Termes, 96 



Termites, 96-100 



in books, 98 



classification, 96 



damage to houses by, 98 



as food, 103 



habitat, TOO 



king, queen and worker, 98 



method of control, 99-100 



number of species, 96 



size of colonies, 98 



swarming, 98 



in tropics, 98 



use of concrete, 99-100 



in wood, 97 



Terrapene (Cistudo) Carolina, 147 

 Terrapin, diamond-back, 139-44, see 



Diamond-back terrapin. 

 Terrapins, 136 

 Tertian fever, 6 

 Tessera princeps, 16 

 Testudinata, see Chelonia. 

 Tetrapturus, see Swordfish. 

 Texas cattle fever, 82 



fever, 4 



Thalassochelys caretta, 139 

 Threadworms, 31 

 Thymol, 36 

 Ticks, 82, 83 

 Tiger rockfish, 113 



skin, 222 



Tinea pellionella, 101 

 Toad, age at sexual maturity, 133 



American, 132-34 



breeding habits, 133 



causing warts, 132 



common, 132-34 



eggs, 133 



enemies of, 134 



as food, 134 



food and feeding habits, 133 



found in rocks, 133 



hibernation, 133 



Toad, as insect destroyers, 133-34 



number of insects eaten, 133 



protection of, 134 



self-protection, 132 



stomach contents, 134 



venom, 132 

 Tolstoi rookery, 225 

 Tongs for oysters, 50, 51 

 Tongue of snake, 154 

 Tooth shell, see Scaphopoda, 45 

 Toothed whales, 274, 276-77 

 Torpedo, see Electric ray. 

 Tortoise shell, 148 

 Tortoises, 136 

 Trapping, cruelty of, 214 



wastefulness of, 214 

 Tree frogs, 127 

 Trees girdled by meadow mice, 247-48 



by pine mice, 248-49 

 Trematoda, 26, 29 

 Trepang, 25 

 Trichinella, infection of hog, 37 



life of cyst, 37 



life-history, 37 



number of cysts in body, 37 



(Trichina) spiralis, 37 

 Trichiniasis, 37 



cure, 38 



death-rate, 38 



prevalence, 38 



prevention, 38 

 Tridacna, see Giant clams. 

 Trionyx, 144 



Tropidonotus fascia tus, 163, 164 

 Trypanosoma, 3 



gambiensis, 3 

 Trypanosomiasis, 3, 4 

 Tsetse fly, 3 



Tuberculosis and flies, 92 

 Tunicata, 107 

 Turbellaria, 26, 27 

 Turkey buzzard as disease carrier, 189 



or vulture, 188, 189 

 Turkish sponges, 12 

 Turtle, common box, habits of, 147 

 distribution, 147 



