INDEX 



495 



Beech, Me., on good effect of drainage work 

 in freeing land from mosquitoes, 392 



Beneficial functions of mosquito larvae, 152 



Bentley, Charles A., on utilization of duck- 

 weeds as deterrents to breeding of mos- 

 quitoes, 419-420 



Bergamot oil as protection against mosquito 

 bites, 367 



Berry, Past Assistant Surgeon, on Mimms 

 Culicide as a fumigant against mosqui- 

 toes, 370-371 



Beyer, Pothier and Parker. (See Parker, 

 Beyer and Pothier.) 



Bibiocephala, mouth-parts, 46 



Bibio, first spiracle and epimerum, 57 



Bibio, mesoepisternum, 58 



Bibliography of mosquitoes, 451-488 



Billbergia, water in plant, breeding place for 

 mosquitoes, etc., 221 



Binucleata, 189 



Bird enemies of mosquitoes, 177-179 



Birds and malaria, researches of Dr. Ronald 

 Ross, 195-196 



Birds, hosts of Proteosoma, 189, 196-197 



Birds, malarial disease transmitted by Culex 

 guinquefasciatus, 202 



Birds, protozoan parasites, 159-160 



Bishop, Wm. H., on cactus paste as mosquito 

 larvicide, 381 



Bites of mosquitoes, effect, 316-319 



Bites of mosquitoes, relative susceptibility of 

 different persons thereto, 318-319 



Black-spot areas of rostrum of mosquito 

 larva, 85 



Bladderwort, Genlisea ornata, enemy of mos- 

 quitoes, 156 



Bladderworts {Utricularia) , enemies of mos- 

 quitoes, 156 



Blanchard, nomenclature of the species of 

 PlasmodiuTti, 189 



Blepharocera, mouth-parts, 47 



Blood injections, yellow fever produced ex- 

 perimentally thereby, 244 



Boats as carriers of mosquitoes, 345-352 



Bombylius, structure of hypopharynx, 40 



" Bourses ventriculaires " of mosquito, 77 



BoYCE and Letwis on increase of bacteria in 

 water containing mosquito larvas, 152 



BoYCE, Sir Rubert, on original home of yel- 

 low fever, 295-296 



Brakeley, J. Turner, on mosquitoes and cas- 

 tor-oil plant, 414 



Breeding house for bats, to encourage their 

 work against mosquitoes, 179 



Breeding of mosquitoes in sewers, preven- 

 tion, 390-391 



Breeding places of mosquitoes, 146-150 



Breeding places of household mosquitoes, abo- 

 lition, 388-390 



Bresia, water in plant, breeding place for 

 mosquitoes, 221 



Bromeliads, destruction, in control of mos- 

 quito larv^, 391 



Bromeliads, water in plant, breeding place of 

 Aedes calopus, 286 



Bromeliads, water in plant, breeding place of 

 Anopheles cruzii, etc., 220-221 



Bromeliads, water in plant, breeding place of 

 mosquitoes, 147, 148 



Bubonic plague, carriage by fleas, 316 



Bubonic plague, suggested carriage by mos- 

 quitoes, 316 



BuBDON, Major, on mosquitoes and Ocimutn 

 viride, 415-416 



Burroughs, John, on mosquitoes in Alaska, 

 138 



BuscK, August, on effectiveness of mosquito 

 larvicide used by Isthmian Canal Com- 

 mission, 386-387 



Buteer, Captain, on abundance of mosqui- 

 toes, 133-134 



Butterfly chrysalis, host of mosquito, 109 



Cacao-husks, water therein, breeding place 

 of mosquitoes, 149 



Cactus paste as mosquito larvicide, 381 



Cadavers bitten by yellow-fever mosquito, 272 



'"Cafifi" (probably Culicoides) as a pest in 

 regions of upper Orinoco and Magdalena 

 rivers, 15 



Calathea. mosquitoes breeding therein, 147, 

 148 



Camphor phenol as fumigant against mos- 

 quitoes, 369-371 



Camphor spirits, oil of citronella, and oil of 

 cedar as protection against mosquito 

 bites, 365 



Canaries, transmission thereto of Plasmo- 

 dium pnecox, 261 



Cancer, suggested carriage by mosquitoes, 316 



Cannibalistic habits in mosquito larvae, 152 



CaprimulgidEe as mosquito destroyers, 177-178 



Carbolic acid as mosquito larvicide, 380 



Carbolic acid, resin and caustic soda emul- 

 sion as mosquito larvicide, 385-387 



Carica papaya. {See Pawpaw.) 



Carp, reported practical use as enemy of mos- 

 quitoes, 402 



Carroll and Reed. (See Reed and Carroll.) 



Carroll, death, due to effect of yellow fever 

 contracted previously, 255 



Carroll on Myxococcidium stegomyice and its 

 supposed relation to yellow fever, 256 



Carroll on the organism producing yellow 

 fever, 257-258 



CarrolUa, abdomen, shape in female, 68 



Carrollia, male genitalia, 71 



Car7-ollia, species breeding in water in 

 broken ends of bamboo, 149 



Carter, Dr. H. R., on distance of flight of salt- 

 marsh mosquitoes, 341 



Carter on distance of flight of yellow-fever 

 mosquito, 273 



Carter on effect of temperature on yellow- 

 fever mosquito, 272 



Cassia oil as protection against mosquito 

 bites, 366 



Castor oil, alcohol and oil of lavender as pro- 

 tection against mosquito bites, 365 



Castor oil plant, alleged deterrent to mos- 

 quitoes, 414-415 



Catch basins of sewers as breeding places for 

 mosquitoes, 390-391 



Cattle, hosts ot Anopheles, 208 



