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Insects belonging to other orders are in many cases 

 directly injurious to man. Of these, to avoid repetition, 

 the fleas are considered in connection with plague, as 

 the part they play in conveying that disease is of more 

 importance than the local injuries they produce, though 

 these in the case of the jigger are of considerable import- 

 ance. 



Antennae and bare arista Wing venation in CEstrida. 



in (Estrida. 



FIG. 90. 



The Hemiptera, bugs, and lice, are also considered with 

 the diseases they carry. 



The larva of a beetle was extracted from an abscess in 

 the buttock of a European living in British Honduras by 

 Dr. Cran, but no other cases are on record. The species 

 to which the larva belonged is unknown. 



