SOME NOXIOUS INSECTS. 

 CHAPTER I. 



INJURIOUS TO MAN. 



"VTOXIOUS insects may be briefly defined as those 

 -L ^ insects which injure man. Obviously they may 

 do this in two ways. Either they inflict direct in- 

 juries on his person, or they indirectly injure him 

 by damaging his property. In either case, they are the 

 result of civilisation. 



To the genuine savage no insects are noxious, not 

 even those bloodthirsty parasites which we call by the 

 general name of " vermin." A savage cares nothing for 

 vermin of any kind, and it is not until man is far 

 removed from savages that he begins to object to their 

 presence. 



One African traveller, for example I think the late 



