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Joblot. He fioun'S tho larva, which is recognizable as 

 that of Auoi>heles. The Dutch observer, Meinert, gave 

 the next accurate (lescii])ti()n and figure of the larva in 

 188(), and other descriptions and tigures were puljlished 

 l)y tlu! Italian, Ficall)!, in l(Si)i), and the Englishman, Giles, 

 in 1900. Tlu! various stages of one of these species were 

 described and figured in 1900 by the Italian, Grassi, and 

 by the present writer. At the time I published these ob- 

 servations, I supposed that I was the first person in Amer- 

 ica to have seen Anopheles larvae, but Dr. Charles Sedg- 

 wick Minot, of the Harvard Medical College, wrote me, 

 after seeing- the first edition of Ihdlctin 25, that he raised 

 Anopheles twenty-five years or more ago without suspect- 

 ing- its id(Mitity. At that time Dr. INIinotwas much in- 

 terested in eutomolog-y. He has since hunted up his old 

 notes, and has published an account of his early observa- 

 tions in the journal of the Boston Society of Medical 

 Sciences, vol. v., January, 1901. 



Th(^ specic^s which I studied in full in the siimmer of 

 1900, and which was treated in my liulletin 25 as Ano])he- 

 les (jiKiilr'niKiciilatiis Say, has been definitely decided to 

 be identical with the AaopJieles hidct/h'/x'/uiis of Europe.* 



* Osteii 8;ickci), KiilomologidH Mimtlih/ M<iiiiix!nf for Dccciubcr, 

 1900, pages 281-288, shows thai Aiwphdex davir/r?' Fu\). lias no exist- 

 eiice. It never existed eitlier as a type specimen, or as a scientific con- 

 cept of a species. The correct name, tiierefore, of tlie common Anopli- 

 eles of northern and central Ein-opi; is Anopheles mteuUpennis ]\I., of 

 which our American A. quadriiiincnJatiis Say, is a synonyn). as has been 

 shown by Theobald. Kutlic wrote in Oken's Isis (1831, p. 120;3). as 

 pointed out by Osten Sacken in the above article, as follows : 



" Aniipfie/e.H 7nftcuUpe>i)iis ^l. is not unconnnon in the Mark Branden- 

 burg, in localities where water is abundant ; for instance, it is (juite 



