364 A CHAPTER ON MITES. 
also, is sometimes used in their holes; hot ashes, spirits of 
turpentine, and other articles of the same kind, are useful to - 
turn them from their course. When a live coal is dropped 
in their way they immediately attack it, though hundreds 
may perish in doing so. They are very sensitive to the 
light of the sun, wich: is fatal to them. They seldom move 
using the day, and then only during cloudy days, choosing 
then the dark woods or thick grass. Their rate of progres- 
sion is about two yards in a minute, and in their journeys 
from place to place they go from four to eight abreast. I 
have seen a stream of Driyers crossing an open path at six 
o'clock in the morning, and at six at night their number was 
undiminished. "e long they had been passing before I 
saw them, or how longiit. continued, I am not able to say. 
Their path, from constant travel, became quite worn and 
smooth. The natives. are very careful to remove all grass 
from the LE of their an as a means € rai ices off 
these pests. . h wa 
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of mites. <The honored names of Hermann, Von Heyden, 
Dugés, Dujardin and Pagenstecher, Nicolet, Koch and - 
Robin, lead. the small number who have published papers. 
‘in scientific -journals. After these, and except an occasional 
uote by an amateur "ou who oceasionally— not to 
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