. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . Leptus. (After Kuchenmeisteb.) Leptus autuninalis (harvest bug). )mm. long, and mm. broad, provided with three pairs oflegs. It is found upon the lower limbs particularly, but also uponthe scalp and every other part of the body. According to Duhring,children are particularly liable to its encroachments. The disorderis relieved by the application of a little balsam of Peru in olive oil,carbolated oil, spirit of camphor, or other mild stimulant or parasi-ticide. Kriptoptes Monunguiculosis. Fig. 9
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . Leptus. (After Kuchenmeisteb.) Leptus autuninalis (harvest bug). )mm. long, and mm. broad, provided with three pairs oflegs. It is found upon the lower limbs particularly, but also uponthe scalp and every other part of the body. According to Duhring,children are particularly liable to its encroachments. The disorderis relieved by the application of a little balsam of Peru in olive oil,carbolated oil, spirit of camphor, or other mild stimulant or parasi-ticide. Kriptoptes Monunguiculosis. Fig. ANIMAL PAEASITES. 647 Acarus hordei is the name given by Weyl and Geber to the larvaof a mite that annoys laborers in barley. It is yellowish-white,oblong or oval in form, averaging mm. in length. There is aprotrudible tubular haustellum, enclosed by serrated mandibles. Oneach side are five-jointed palpi. There are four pairs of feet; twoon the cephalo-thorax; two, abdominal in situation; all articulatedto the epimeres. The tarsus of the first pair terminates in hookedclaws; the others have haustellum disks on stems. Between thefirst and second pairs are swinging clubs, indicating the larval condi-tion. Dipterous Larvse in and beneath the Human Skin. There is no dipterous insect peculiar to man alone, but a numberof cases are on record where the ova of several species of oestrushave been deposited in the skin, and larvse been subsequently oestrus bovis/or gad-fly, is the most common of these. Usuallyafter the ova are deposited by the insect, a painful swelling occurs
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