JOURNAL 



TOffo Jfjorh Qntomologiral %m\tty. 



Vol. XIV. JUNE, 1906. No. 2 



Class I, HEXAPODA. 



Order IV, DIPTERA. 



GOELDI'S "OS MOSQUITOS NO PARA.'' 



By Frederick Knab, 

 Washington, D. C. 



This handsome quarto by Dr. Emilio Augusto Goeldi, published as 

 Memoir IV of the Museu Goeldi (Para Museum), deals with the mos- 

 quitoes of Para (Brazil). The species treated of are chiefly those 

 that molest man, their biology and relation to hygiene and a large 

 part of the work is devoted to Stegomyia fasciata and Culex fatigans, 

 preeminently the town mosquitoes of the tropics. The 154 pages 

 are replete with interesting data and suggestive ideas. The author 

 throughout, is careful to distinguish between fact and theory, so 

 that the volume is a highly inspiring one to students of this subject. 

 The text is in Portuguese, unfortunately made difficult for those not 

 proficient in the language, by a rich and picturesque literary style, 

 which aims to be popular as well as scientific, and must certainly make 

 it attractive to Brazilian readers. There are fifteen plates, with nu- 

 merous figures, illustrating the life histories of the various species, and 

 five very fine color plates figuring the imagos of fourteen species, in 

 most cases of both sexes. 



In this work are brought together the observations published under 

 the same title in two previous bulletins (1902, 1904), augmented by 

 a great deal of new matter, and detailed accounts of the early stages 

 of most of the species considered, and in the fourth chapter is appended 

 the paper on Stegomyia fasciata read before the International Congress 

 of Zoologists at Bern in August, 1904, and now translated from the 



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