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More Minor Horrors

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Sir A. E. Shipley
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The author presents a series of illustrated essays on insects and small animals that infest human environments, combining natural-history description, life cycles, anatomy, habits, and practical notes on their economic and hygienic impacts. Chapters focus on cockroaches, various mosquitos including the anopheline and yellow-fever types, bot or warble flies, the biscuit weevil, fig moths, stable-flies, rats and field mice, using diagrams, observational anecdotes and occasional wry commentary to explain identification, development stages and interactions with people and livestock.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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A portrait of the head of an Eskimo attacked by mosquitos Frontispiece
1. Periplaneta orientalis, male, dorsal view 2
2. P. orientalis, male, side view 6
3. Mouth parts of P. orientalis 9
4. P. orientalis, female, dissected 10
5. Egg capsule of P. orientalis 12
6. Cast skin of the nymph stage of cockroach 18
7. Nymph stage of cockroach escaping from old skin 19
8. Hypoderma bovis 29
9. Eggs of H. lineatum 33
10. Eggs of H. bovis 35
11. Entrance hole of H. lineatum 37
12. Cow being chased by warble-fly 40
13. Side-view of head of Anopheles maculipennis, female 44
14. Section through proboscis of A. maculipennis, female 45
15. Piercing-lancets of A. maculipennis, female 46
16. A. maculipennis, female, sucking blood 58
17. A. maculipennis, male 66
18. Stridulating organ of A. maculipennis 70
19. Larva and eggs of A. maculipennis 78
20. Side view of the head of larva of A. maculipennis 81
21. Under surface of head of larva of A. maculipennis 82
22. Diagrams of mosquitos and gnats 85
23. Side view of pupa of A. maculipennis 91
24. Tail of pupa of A. maculipennis 93
25. Imago mosquito issuing from pupa-case 95
26. Stegomyia fasciata, female 104
27. Larva and eggs of S. fasciata 106
28. Larva of S. fasciata 107
29. Egg of S. fasciata 108
30. The biscuit-‘weevil’ (Anobium paniceum) 112
31. The larval and pupal stages of A. paniceum 113
32. Orchard of fig-trees 115
33. The fig-moth (Ephestia cautella) 116
34. Figs drying on reeds 119
35. Figs packed on strings 120
36. Pile of refuse-figs 122
37. The stable-fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) 125
38. Stomoxys calcitrans 126
39. Wings of Musca domestica and of Stomoxys calcitrans 127
40. Side view of head of Stomoxys calcitrans 128
41. Stomoxys calcitrans. Eggs 129
42. Acephalous larva of Stomoxys calcitrans 130
43. Coarctate pupa of Stomoxys calcitrans 131
44. The rat (Mus rattus) 136
45. Head of Mus rattus 138
46. Mus decumanus 143
47. Head of Mus decumanus 145
48. The field-mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) 156
49. Diagram of burrow of field-mouse 159