More Minor Horrors

by Sir A. E. Shipley

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I].	Cockroaches (Periplaneta)	1
[II].	Cockroaches (continued)	16
[III].	The Bot- or Warble-Fly (Hypoderma)	25
[IV].	The Mosquito (Anopheles maculipennis)	42
[V].	The Mosquito (continued)	53
[VI].	The Mosquito (continued)	65
[VII].	The Mosquito (continued)	76
[VIII].	The Mosquito (continued)	86
[IX].	The Yellow-Fever Mosquito (Stegomyia calopus)	101
[X].	The Biscuit-‘Weevil’ (Anobium paniceum)	111
[XI].	The Fig-Moth (Ephestia cautella)	114
[XII].	The Stable-Fly (Stomoxys)	124
[XIII].	Rats (Mus or Epimys)	135
[XIV].	The Field-Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)	153
	[Index]	161

ILLUSTRATIONS

FIG.		PAGE
	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

MORE MINOR HORRORS

CHAPTER I
COCKROACHES (Periplaneta)

Part I

The Governess: And, perhaps, Mabel, as they are not black and as they are not beetles, you will in future call them cockroaches.

Mabel: Certainly, Miss Smith, although they are not cocks and they are not roaches.

(Punch.)