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"Chiggers. What are they?" asked the Colonel. "Chiggers, jiggers, chigoes pulex penetrans," answered the Surgeon. "They are a great pest in the tropics, where the people go barefooted and do not take any care of their feet. This is the first time that I have ever heard of them being so far north. But there is no doubt about their being chiggers.
I may say that on recognising the bird I drew as near as I could, keeping myself behind the shrubbery, but the pulex hibiscus which apparently caught a brief glimpse of my face uttered a cry of distress and flew away. I am, sir, Believe me, yours, sir, O.Y. Botherwithit. Distressed by these repeated failures, I sank back to a lower level of English literary work, the puzzle department.
There is no mistake as to the meaning and identity of pulex irritans, confound him! What if we should look in, some day, on the Scarabeeist, as he calls himself? said I. -The fact is the Master had got agoing at such a rate that I was willing to give a little turn to the conversation. Oh, very well, said the Master, I had some more things to say, but I don't doubt they'll keep.
The crustacean found in the pits of mines, which is related to the sand flea, shows, according to Dr. R. Schneider, a slight degeneration of the organ of sight, which has taken place in consequence of its adaptation to the dark places, in which this variety of the Gammarus pulex is found, which can make no use of eyes, while the sand flea possesses them fully developed.
While passing through Lambeth Gardens yesterday towards the hour of dusk I observed a crow with one leg sitting beside the duck-pond and apparently lost in thought. There was no doubt that the bird was of the species pulex hibiscus, an order which is becoming singularly rare in the vicinity of the metropolis. Indeed, so far as I am aware, the species has not been seen in London since 1680.
There is no mistake as to the meaning and identity of pulex irritans, confound him! What if we should look in, some day, on the Scarabeeist, as he calls himself? said I. The fact is the Master had got agoing at such a rate that I was willing to give a little turn to the conversation. Oh, very well, said the Master, I had some more things to say, but I don't doubt they'll keep.
But the resources of one-and-twenty are not easily daunted, even by the presence of the CIMEX LECTULARIUS or the PULEX IRRITANS. I inquired for a LAQUAIS DE PLACE, some human being to consort with was the most pressing of immediate wants. As luck would have it, the very article was in the dreary courtyard, lurking spider-like for the innocent traveller just arrived.
The poor pulex has lost every trace of wings; nevertheless, in its fallen condition it has developed some remarkable qualities and saltatory powers, which give it a lower kind of glory; and, compared with another parasite with which it shares the human species, it is almost a noble insect.
In Corixæ the posterior wings, which lie under the hard and horny anterior wings, are a little shorter than the anterior wings; they are not folded up on themselves and are not so delicate and transparent as the wings of the beetle. Such small creatures as Daphnia pulex, Cyclops quadricornis and Rotifera should be introduced into ponds.
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