16 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



micrograph herein, showing, in up- 

 per row, some of the larvae mos- 

 quitoes nearly fully developed, with 

 the long, curved sting, etc., and 

 below some remotely developed 

 mosquito larvae are seen. They 

 were originally gathered from a 

 stagnant pool of rain water in a 

 bucket in the rear of a drug store, 

 "which contained millions of them in 

 all stages of development. On the 

 third row of the photos, two 

 views of the pestiferous house- 



■ Mandibles with Fang of the Texas 

 Tarantula 



fly with eggs and larval flies are 

 seen; and on first view, last row, 

 the sharp daggers of the blood 

 thirsty horsefly; also the eye- 

 globe of a fly; a number of tobacco 

 beetles and larvae of such, infest- 

 ing tobacco. Another view shows 

 the eggs of the Texas cattle- 

 tick; two views of helgramites, ot 

 "water-centepedes;" a large col- 

 lection of poison fangs ' of various 

 venomous animals of Texas; three 

 waterhen eggs in nest, and a 

 pair of young wild doves on nest, 



as well as other views, all of 

 which, more or less, have been en- 

 graved from the original photo- 

 graphs and to be seen in other 

 chapters of this work in special 

 articles on same. 



Two Interesting Fleas of a Mouse 



Fleas on various types of quad- 

 rupeds vary somewhat as to size, 

 shape and color; and the photo 

 herein represents a male and female 

 flea of a mouse. Note the long 

 outstretched hindlegs, and the 

 stinging apparatus, which is nicely 

 represented in the following separ- 

 ate photomicrograph. 



The Knives and Daggers of Flea 



