(1) Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man (2) The House-Fly, Musca domestica, Linn Its Structure, Habits, Development, Relation to Disease and Control

Abstract

“HOUSEHOLD insects” have, for many years past, attracted the attention of entomologists in North America, and since the publication of the well-known Bulletins of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by Dr. L. O. Howard and Mr. F. H. Chittenden, on pests of this nature, in 1896, much work of importance has been done, particularly with regard to house-flies and mosquitoes. Students of the subject should, therefore, be grateful to Prof. Herrick for providing a popular and trustworthy account (1) of our arthropodous “messmates” and parasites. In addition to insects in the zoological sense of the term, spiders, mites, ticks, solpugids, scorpions, and centipedes are passed in review, and the British reader cannot but feel that some compensation for not being an American is afforded by the comparatively scanty house-fauna of his native land.

(1) Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man.

By Prof. G. W. Herrick. Pp. xvii + 470. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., 1914.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) The House-Fly, Musca domestica, Linn. Its Structure, Habits, Development, Relation to Disease and Control.

By Dr. C. G. Hewitt. Pp. xv + 382. (Cambridge University Press, 1914.) Price 15s. net.