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CHAPTER PAQE 



Garbage 160 



Excreta . 161 



Carcasses . 161 



Miscellaneous Breeding Places . . . 16^ 



Palliative Measures 162 



XI. CoNTBOL OF Flies in Barn Yards, Pig Pens and Chicken Yards . . . 167 



Repression of Plies in Barn Yard 167 



Fly Control in Pig Lots and Pens 170 



Prevention of Fly Breeding in Chicken Houses and Yards . . 173 



XII. Myiasis — Types of Injury and Life History, and Habits of Species 



Concerned 175 



Tissue-Destroying Forms 176 



Subdermal Migratory Species ... .... . . 182 



Intestinal and Urogenital Myiasis . 190 



Forms Producing Myiasis in Head Passages 193 



Bloodsucking Forms . . 195 



Some Bibliographical References . . 196 



XIII. Myiasis — Its Prevention and Treatment ... .... ... 200 



Tissue-Destroying Forms 200 



Subdermal Migratory Species . . 204 



Species Causing Intestinal and Urogenital Myiasis 205 



Species Infesting Head Passages 207 



Bloodsucking Species ... . . 208 



XIV. Diseases Transmitted by Bloodsucking Flies . . . 209 



Plant Organisms Carried by Bloodsucking Flies . ... 209 



Thallophyta: Fungi: Schizomycetes : Bacteriacese 209 



Thallophyta: Fungi: Schizomycetes: Coccaceae ... 210 



Diseases of Unknown or Uncertain Origin .... .211 



Animal Organisms Transmitted by Bloodsucking Flies . . . . 212 



Protozoa 212 



Mastigophora : Binucleata: Hsemoproteidae ... .... 212 



Mastigophora: Binucleata: Leucocytozoidse . . . 214 



Mastigophora: Binucleata: Trypanosomidse ... . . 214 



Mastigophora: Binucleata: Leptomonidse ... 219 



Mastigophora: Spirochsetacea: Spirochsetidae 216 



Telosporidia: Haemogregarinida: Haemogregarinidse 219 



Metazoa .220 



Nemathelminthes : Nematoda : Filariidae ... . . 220 



Bibliography . . .... 220 



XV. Biological Notes on the Bloodsucking Flies . . 223 



Family CHiRONOMiD.a! .... . 223 



Midges 223 



Family Simuliid.*) . . . . . 224 



Buffalo Gnats ... . .224 



Family Psychodid-e . . . . 226 



Pappataci Flies . . . . . ... 226 



Family Culicid.e ... . 228 



Family Tabanid.*: .... ... 228 



Horse Flies ... . ... 228 



Family Muscid.e . . .... 228 



Bloodsucking Fly Larvae ... . ... 228 



Biting Species of Musca . 229 



True Biting Flies ... 229 



Stable Flies 230 



