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INDEX 



Hadwen, Dr., 31, 32 



Halobates, 2 



Helm, 135 



Hewitt, T. R., 36 



Hindle, Mr., 131 



Howard, 58, 71, 74, 77, 94 



Hypoderma, 25, 28 



Hypoderma bovis, 31, 32 ; eggp of, 



34 

 Hypoderma lineatiim, 31, 32; eggs 



of, 34, 38 



Imms, Mr., 31 



Infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), 



132 

 Irish Department of Agriculture, 



36 

 Ismailia, 98 



Jbnyns, 136, 141 



Johnston (of Baltimore), 65, 66, 67 



Joly, 74 



Mosquitos, biting apparatus, 43 

 wings, 50 ; hibernation of 

 female, 54 ; food of, 64—7 ; 

 experiments with, 60-3, 67-8 ; 

 how to avoid, 63-4 ; auditory 

 organs of, 65 ; buzzing of, 

 68-74 ; eggs of, 76 



Moufet, 3 



Muridae, 154, 156 



JfiM or Epimys, 135 



Mus rattus or Epimys rattus, 135 n., 



136, 139, 144, 145 



M. decumanus orNorvegicus, 135 n., 



137, 140, 141, 142, 145 

 M. alexandrinus, 140 

 Musca domestica, 125, 126 



Neumann, R. O. and O., 109 

 Nuttall, Professor, 47, 52, 54, 56, 

 57, 58, 71, 77 



Ormerod, Miss, 28, 30 

 Oestridae (bot-flies), 28 



Kerschbattmbb, 57 



Lantz, Dr., 147 n. 



Larva, of bot-flies, 28, 35 ; of 



mosquitos, 80-5, 90, 91, 97; 



of yellow-fever mosquito, 107 ; 



of stable-fly, 130 

 Latter, 4 

 Lazear, Dr., 105 

 Lefroy, Prof., 63 

 Liverpool School of Tropical 



Medicine, 55 

 Lyddeker, 146 



Malaria, 48, 104 ; prevention of, 



98 

 Maxim, Sir Hiram, 75 

 Mayer, 67 

 Miall and Denny, 5 

 Microlepidoptera, 116 n. 

 Morrell, Dr. C. Conyers, 21, 23 

 Moseley, Prof., 16 



Pennant, 138, 139, 141 



Perez, J., 71, 72 



Periplaneta orientalis, 4, 5, 16 



P. americana, 4 



P. germanica, 5, 16 



Plague conveyed by rats, 149 



Port Swettenham, 98 



Ptinidae, 111 



Pupa of mosquitos, 92-5, 97 



Pyralidae, 116 n. 



Rats, black, or Old-English, 137 ; 



brown, 141 ; ravages of 145-9 ; 



estimated annual damage by, 



149 ; diseases conveyed by, 149 ; 



destruction of, 150, 152 ; in the 



trenches, 151 

 Reed, Dr. Walter, 105 

 Ross, Sir Ronald, 97, 98, 104 



Sam Browne belts, 26 

 Sigmodon (rice-rat), 140 



