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GNATS OR MOSQUITOES — CHAPTER YIII 



hand in the same way as is done in England. The water 

 is usually raised from a well by the agency of bullocks, and 

 as the gardens are generally tolerably large, is generally, to 

 save labour, distributed by masonry channels to a number 

 of small cemented tanks, such as that illustrated below, 

 from which the water is dipped up by the gardeners. 



Fig. 33. — Typical garden tauk (oue of a do/.tu) iu the garden of an 

 European residence in Shahjahauiiur, N.W.P., India. 



Now as far as the Anglo-Indian resident of upper India 

 is concerned these tanks are par excellence the most fruitful 

 of breeding places for Mosquitoes of all kinds. During 

 the hot dry weather, they teem with the larvae of 

 Culex fat igans, whose imagines render life in the attached 

 bungalow well nigh unbearable ; when the rains come this 

 species is associated with Stcrjomyia fasciata, Anophelefes, 

 and other Mosquitoes appertaining to the season; and all 

 through the cold weather they serve as the last vantage 

 ground of the few Mosquitoes that remain active at that 

 time of the year. 



To those who have lived only in Europe the remedy 



