Insects Affecting Domestic Animals¹

Abstract

THIS work is one of the most recent of the many valuable publications on economic entomology for which we are indebted to the Department of Agriculture of the United States, and is a well-printed and well-illustrated volume of about 300 pages, giving, firstly, an enormous amount of useful information on the histories and means of prevention of insects injurious to wild and domesticated animals, and also to man. Following on this are about sixty pages devoted to the wingless parasites, classed scientifically in the sub-order Mallophaga more shortly here as “biting lice”; and a further division, of about twenty-five pages, gives under the heading of Arachnida some of the most important representatives of the “mites, ticks, scab insects, mange insects, &c.”