NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



size. Doctor Howard has listed these forms as likely to be disease 

 carriers. 



These little insects rarely enter the house unless attracted by 

 overripe or canned fruit. The latter should be hermetically sealed, 

 making it safe from injury, and stored in the cellar or other place 

 comparatively inaccessible to the flies, as soon as convenient. These 

 small flies can easily be destroyed with fresh, pyrethrum powder. 



House Centipede 58 



Fig. 5 House centi- 

 pede; seen from above", 

 enlarged, the head still 

 more enlarged (after 

 Wood) 



This light-brown, rapidly running, sprawly legged centipede 

 arouses more or less aversion and terror through apprehension. 

 Like other centipedes, it is capable of inflicting a somewhat poison- 

 ous bite though, as a rule, it is only too glad to escape. The house 

 centipede has become well established in the dwellings of Albany, 

 N. Y., and is presumably more or less abundant in other cities of 

 the State. It is beneficial in that it is known to prey upon house 

 flies, cockroaches and other insects. Its presence in a house should 

 be welcomed, since it is capable of inflicting no injury aside from a 

 somewhat poisonous bite, the latter being extremely rare. 



58 Scutigera forceps Raf. 



