LIST OF PLATES 



FACING PAGE 



Plate I. Eggs of house-fly, above ( x 4), Photo, by Knight ; 



properly screened porch below, Photo, by MacGillivray . 30 



Plate II. Cockroach, croton-bug with egg-case ( x 1) ; trap 

 for cockroaches, Photos, by Slingerland ; bedbug, below, 

 much enlarged, Photo, by author 110 



Plate III. Beetle of darker meal-worm ( x 3) ; and pupa 

 ( x 2) ; pupae and larva of meal-worm ( x 1), Photos, 

 by Knight; yeast cake injured by drug-store beetle, 

 Photo, by author 228 



Plate IV. Indian-meal moth above, enlarged by Bishop; 

 Mediterranean flour-moth ( x 3) by Bishop ; eggs ( x 5) 

 and pupae of Mediterranean flour-moth, Photos, by K night 244 



Plate V. Blisters on leg caused by redbugs, enlarged, Photo. 



by Bradley 322 



Plate VI. Book injured by termites, above, Photo, by author ; 



nest of termites in South Africa, below, Photo, by Gunn 364 



Plate VII. Tarantula, above, Photo, by Crosby ; chicken 

 ticks, Photo, by author; and brown-tail moths, below, 

 Photo, by Slingerland 402 



Plate VIII. Caterpillar of buck moth above, Photo, by Ilg ; 

 saddle-back caterpillar in middle, Photo, by Slingerland ; 

 larvae of flannel moth, Photo, by Slingerland ; and of io 

 moth, below, Photo, by Knight 428 



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