INDEX
- Agramonte, Dr., 105
- Albertus Magnus, 135
- Allen, H. Warner, 151
- Anobium paniceum (biscuit-‘weevil’), 111, 112
- A. striatum, 111
- Apodemus sylvaticus (field-mouse), 153, 154
- Anopheles maculipennis, 42, 65, 106;
- head of, 49;
- distribution of, 51;
- hibernation of, 54;
- breeding habits of, 55-6;
- sensibility to light, 59;
- and colour, 60-3, 110;
- extermination of, 63;
- buzzing of, 73-4;
- eggs of, 78;
- larva, 86
- Austen, 55
- Bacillus lactis aerogenes, B. cloacae, 23
- Bell, 135
- Bellesme, Jousset de, 72
- Biscuit-‘weevil,’ 111-13
- Blandford, Dr., 135, 140
- Blattodea, 4
- Bombay Plague Commission, 137, 145
- Bot- or warble-fly, 25, 27;
- effect on cattle, 40;
- cure for, 41
- British Medical Journal, 24, 63
- Browne, Sir Samuel James, 27
- Cambon, 59
- Canada, 31, 32
- Carpenter, Prof. G. H., 36
- Carroll, Dr., 105
- Ceratopogon, 42
- Challenger, H.M.S., 16
- Churchill’s Voyages, 142 n.
- Cropper, J., 63
- Cockroaches (Periplaneta), 1, 3;
- food of, 8, 11, 13, 17
- Culex, 42, 50, 51, 55, 58, 79, 88, 90, 106-7
- Duncan, P. M., 21 n.
- Dusaussois, 148
- Ectobia, 4
- Elephantiasis, 47
- Entomology, Washington Bureau of, 114, 118
- Ephestia cautella, 114, 115, 117, 121
- E. kühniella, 115, 116, 117
- Field-mouse, 154-9
- Fig-moth, 114;
- ravages of, 117-22;
- prevention of infection by, 123
- Filaria, 47
- Filaria rhytipleurites, 21
- Filaria labiato-papillosa, 131
- Finlay (of Havana), 104
- Finsch, 53
- Gardiner, J. Stanley, 73
- Gesner, 136
- Gleichen-Russworm, von, 73
- Grassi, 54, 55, 68, 77, 78, 79, 84
- Gray, 58
- Hadwen, Dr., 31, 32
- Halobates, 2
- Helm, 135
- Hewitt, T. R., 36
- Hindle, Mr., 131
- Howard, 58, 71, 74, 77, 94
- Hypoderma, 25, 28
- Hypoderma bovis, 31, 32;
- eggs of, 34
- Hypoderma lineatum, 31, 32;
- eggs of, 34, 38
- Imms, Mr., 31
- Infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), 132
- Irish Department of Agriculture, 36
- Ismailia, 98
- Jenyns, 136, 141
- Johnston (of Baltimore), 65, 66, 67
- Joly, 74
- Kerschbaumer, 57
- Lantz, Dr., 147 n.
- Larva, of bot-flies, 28, 35;
- of mosquitos, 80-5, 90, 91, 97;
- of yellow-fever mosquito, 107;
- of stable-fly, 130
- Latter, 4
- Lazear, Dr., 105
- Lefroy, Prof., 63
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 55
- Lyddeker, 146
- Malaria, 48, 104;
- prevention of, 98
- Maxim, Sir Hiram, 75
- Mayer, 67
- Miall and Denny, 5
- Microlepidoptera, 116 n.
- Morrell, Dr. C. Conyers, 21, 23
- Moseley, Prof., 16
- Mosquitos, biting apparatus, 43;
- wings, 50;
- hibernation of female, 54;
- food of, 64-7;
- experiments with, 60-3, 67-8;
- how to avoid, 63-4;
- auditory organs of, 65;
- buzzing of, 68-74;
- eggs of, 76
- Moufet, 3
- Muridae, 154, 156
- Mus or Epimys, 135
- Mus rattus or Epimys rattus, 135 n., 136, 139, 144, 145
- M. decumanus or Norvegicus, 135 n., 137, 140, 141, 142, 145
- M. alexandrinus, 140
- Musca domestica, 125, 126
- Neumann, R. O. and O., 109
- Nuttall, Professor, 47, 52, 54, 56, 57, 58, 71, 77
- Ormerod, Miss, 28, 30
- Oestridae (bot-flies), 28
- Pennant, 138, 139, 141
- Perez, J., 71, 72
- Periplaneta orientalis, 4, 5, 16
- P. americana, 4
- P. germanica, 5, 16
- Plague conveyed by rats, 149
- Port Swettenham, 98
- Ptinidae, 111
- Pupa of mosquitos, 92-5, 97
- Pyralidae, 116 n.
- Rats, black, or Old-English, 137;
- brown, 141;
- ravages of 145-9;
- estimated annual damage by, 149;
- diseases conveyed by, 149;
- destruction of, 150, 152;
- in the trenches, 151
- Reed, Dr. Walter, 105
- Ross, Sir Ronald, 97, 98, 104
- Sam Browne belts, 26
- Sigmodon (rice-rat), 140
- Smyrna, Report of the fig-moth in, 114 n.
- Smyth, E. G., 118
- Sphex (or Chlorion), 20
- Spirogyra, 84
- Stable-fly, 125;
- food of, 128;
- diseases conveyed by, 131, 132
- Stegomyia calopus or fasciata, 101, 105;
- domesticated, 108;
- bites of, 108, 110
- Stomoxys calcitrans (stable-fly), 125;
- distribution of, 127;
- eggs of, 129;
- diseases conveyed by, 131, 132, 133;
- extermination of, 133
- Symbius blattarum, 21
- Thayer, Dr., 53
- Thomas, Oldfield, 140
- Trichinella spiralis, 149
- Trypanosoma, 131
- ‘Warbled’ hides, 30
- Watson, Dr. Malcolm, 98
- Weaver, A. de P., 74, 75
- Weinland, 73
- Whelan, R. G., 37
- White, Gilbert, 5
- Wilson, Edwin, 69, 73
- Xestobium tessellatum, 111
- Yellow-fever, 101-3;
- localities affected by, American commission on, 105
- Yellow-fever mosquito, 101, 104;
- metamorphosis of, 109
- Yersin, 149
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Transformation of Insects, by P. M. Duncan. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1882.
[2] From the Portuguese ‘cuspidor.’ Cf. the Latin ‘conspuere.’
[3] British Medical Journal, 1911, ii. 1531.
[4] The Irish Naturalist, October 1914.
[5] This is a fact I have always tried to conceal from Mrs. Pankhurst; but, sooner or later, she is bound to find it out.
[6] Owing to the recent restrictions on imported fruit imposed by the Government the food of these beautiful little insects will be further diminished. But what does our Government know or care about insects?
[7] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 378.
[8] Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris (1878), lxxxvii, p. 535.
[9] Zeit. f. wissensch. Zool. (1891), li, p. 55.
[10] Geschichte der gemeinen Stubenfliege. Nuremberg, 1764.
[11] If you have a beard.
[12] Modern systematists now call the biscuit-‘weevil’ Sitodrepa panicea.
[13] The figures illustrating this article are taken from The Report of the Fig-moth in Smyrna, Bul. 104. Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 1911.
[14] It might be well to repeat the fact that the genus Ephestia belongs to the family PYRALIDAE, which is by most authorities included in the Microlepidoptera. The Speaker’s sneer at the entomologists who work at this group (see his letter in The Times of February 2, 1916) is hardly worthy of one of the chief trustees of the British Museum. As a chief trustee, he must have been aware of the exhibit of the Microlepidoptera, E. kühniella, and its devastating action on the biscuits supplied to our soldiers by the War Office, which has for many months occupied a prominent position in the middle of the central hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. This exhibit showed how closely the study of the Microlepidoptera is associated with the food-supply of our soldiers in many parts of the world.
[15] The modern systematist now calls the black rat Epimys rattus, and distinguishes two varieties—E. rattus alexandrinus and E. rattus rattus; the brown rat is now E. norvegicus.
[16] A History of British Quadrupeds, 2nd ed. London, 1874.
[17] London, 1833.
[18] British Zoology. London, 1812.
[19] Ovalle’s ‘History of Chili,’ in Churchill’s Voyages, vol. iii, p. 45.
[20] ‘An Economic Study of Field-mice (Genus Microtus).’ By Dr. Lantz, in U.S. Dept. of Agric., Biol. Survey, Bull. 31.