1. Historical; 2. Systematic; 3. Bionomical; 4. Medical; 5. Technique; 6. The egg; 7. Eclosion; 8. embryology; 9. The larva; 10. The larval instars; 11. The larva and its environment; 12. Growth; 13. The larva: internal structure; 14. The larva: internal structure (continued); 15. The pupa; 16. The pupa (continued); 17. The imago; 18. The imago: external characters; 19. The imago: external characters (continued); 20. The imago: food and feeding; 21. The blood meal; 22. Mating and oviposition; 23. Flight; 24. The imago: special senses and behaviour; 25. Viability under different environmental conditions; 26. The imago: internal structure; 27. The imago: internal structure (continued); 28. The imago: the nervous system and retrocerebral complex; 29. The imago: special sense organs; 30. The imago: the excretory and reproductive systems; 31. The imago: physiology; Index.