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hungry mosquitoes to carry to other people. And 

 they did keep him, though he grew very tired of 

 waiting. 



After photograph by Heims 



Fig. 83. Mosquitoes poised to bite. Left, malarial 

 mosquito — Anopheles; right, common mosquito 



Gatun Lake has not been a troublesome place 

 for the hatching of mosquito eggs, as some people 

 thought it would be. The high winds, coming 





After photograph by Herma 



Fig. 84. Mosquitoes hanging to water surface. Right, 



malarial mosquito larva — Anopheles; left, common 



mosquito larva (enlarged) 



every day, break the surface of the lake into waves 

 and drown the. little wrigglers, which, for all that 

 they live in water, must have air. 



