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INDEX 



general structure, 425-428; dis- 

 eases carried by, 424; relation- 

 ships, 425; sexes distinguished, 

 426; hfe history, 428-433; habits 

 of adults, 433-434; habitats, 434; 

 migration, 434-435; time of 

 activity, 435-436.; food habits, 

 ,436; hibernation, 436; length 

 of life, 436-437; classification, 

 437; effect of bites, 453; reme- 

 dies for bites, 454-455; personal 

 protection, 455-456; elimination 

 and exclusion from buUduigs, 

 456-457; larvicides, 457-459; 

 prevention of breeding, 459; 

 natural enemies, 459-462; 

 and malaria, discovery, 7; develop- 

 ment of Plasmodium falciparum 

 in, 154-156; malaria carriers, 

 157-159, 438-441 ; number neces- 

 sary to propagate malaria, 165; 

 habits of Anopheles, 441-443; 

 and yellow fever, discovery, 7, 443; 

 transmitting species, 443-448; 

 and Filaria, discovery, 7, 298, 

 449; development of Filaria 

 bancrofti in, 301-303, 450-451; 

 as transmitting species, 450-451 ; 

 and dengue, discovery, 8, 448; 187; 

 transmitting species, 448-449; 

 and Dermatobia, 451-453, 514; 

 objections to mosquito trans- 

 mission theory, 452; transmit- 

 ting species, 453. 



Mosquito-worm, 451. 



Mould, cause of kedani, 192. 



Mouth, spiroohaetes in, 70; Tri- 

 chomonas in, 119; amebae in, 

 139-146. 



Mouth ameba, see Endamceba gin- 

 givalis. 



Mouthparts of insects, 325-327. 



Mule, host of Dermatobia, 513. 



Murray, C. H., 371, 372, 374, 375. 



Musca domestica, changed attitude 

 towards, 3; stable-fhes mistaken 

 for, 504; breeds in manure, 508; 

 and intestinal myiasis, 527. 



Muscidae, includes tsetse flies, 491; 

 stable-flies, 504; other blood- 

 suckers, 506; screw-worm, 519; 

 other species causing myiasis of 

 wounds, 521. 



MUSGRAVE, W. E., 221. 



Myiasis, 509-528; definition, 509; 

 flies causing, 509; classification, 

 510; by blood-sucking maggots, 

 511-513; of skin, 513-519; of 

 wounds and natural cavities of 

 body, 519-523; of intestine, 

 523-528; of urinary passages, 

 528. 



Myoneme, 31. 



Myriapoda, 324-325. 



Myxococcidium stegomyice, and yellow 

 fever, 184. 



Nagana, 108, 497. 



Nagayo, M., 192, 337. 



Nakagawa, K., 8, 221, 222, 223. 



Naphthaline, for intestinal fluke in- 

 fections, 230; for body lice, 401, 

 402; to eliminate fleas, 421, 422- 

 423. 



Nasal polypus, 173-174. 



Natal, hookworm quarantine, 268; 

 Cordylobia anthropophaga, 518. 



NCI, for hce, 402. 



Nebraska, Tmnia confusa, 245. 



Necator americanus, distribution, 255; 

 description, 255-257; see also 

 Hookworms. 



Negri bodies, 170, 194. 



Negroes, syphihs among, 51; im- 

 munity to malaria, 163. 



Neiva, a., 381, 452. 



Nemaioda, 198; intestinal, 270-272, 

 282; see also various species. 



Nematomorpha, 199. 



Nemathelminthes, 198-199; intes- 

 tinal forms, 270-272; see also 

 various species. 



Nemertinea, 198. 



Neosalvarsan, for syphilis, 57; to 

 prevent trypanosome infection, 

 107. 



