Sure enough, Mr. Sowerby told his Histeners, at one end of the fat maggot like body of each of the strange insects were the head and fogs of a flea. "I well remember that my companion remarked, "We alway expect something etirious from China.
The specimens in question ware sent to the world's greatest authority on fleas, the Hon, N. Charles Roths-chitd, and in due course he produced paper on three now species of eas collected on the Clark Expedition, 'The insects which Mr. Sowerby had believed to be maggots were in fact the gravid females of a very small black flea, male specimens of which had been' found in the pelt of the door.
These females had enormously distended whitish abdomens, which was what made them look £0 like mag. gots, Although he had examined Many mare roeder and other animals for fleas since that time, Mr. Sowerby added that he had never found anther specimen of this strange Jigger-Tike flea, nor, as far as he knew, had anyone else since.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.