lung worm. An important class of parasites remain to be noticed the arthropoda, which destroyed by cold or heat, but it cannot any longer be said that the lung worm and stinging winged insects may be quoted, but the larval forms of insects have changes, however extreme they may be, in checking the multiplication of the A certain period of the year, which varies in different districts from July to not evident until the parasites are fully grown. blooded animals, i.e., arachnida and insecta. The first include the very four sub-classes into which arthropoda are divided are parasites to warm- It was held at one time that infested pastures might be rendered healthy by may become parasitic for a time in the mature form ; for example, the biting moistened with water. It is, therefore, useless to expect much from climatic it is certain that they undergo development in moist earth. period are almost certain to become infested. Generally, the beginning of injury, and they have also survived the action of the sun, becoming lively when extensive parasites of acari or mange mites, and the somewhat rare pentas- the widest range as parasites, inhabiting the skin and also the internal organs. recently recorded, embryos have been repeatedly frozen and thawed without are distinguished, as the name implies, by joint extremities. Only two of the September, is found to be most favourable for the development of the lung a winter's frost, or by a scorching sun ; and, possibly, some parasites may be stoma, which in the larval form inhabit the digestive canal, and when mature worm, and sheep and calves which are put on the pastures during the dangerous are found in the respiratory passages, chiefly in the nasal chambers. Insecta can be got rid of by such means. In the experiments which have been and, judging from post mortem appearances, the characteristic symptoms are autumn is the time when the first signs of the invasion of the parasites appears,