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jiot iillowing tlie disease to oxist aniong us. As cliildren iii Franee aro 

 tauglit to look witb. liopes toward Alsace and Lorraine, so the Cuban 

 teacher is called upon to teach tlie i:»eople frorn the schools to distirr- 

 guish the larvae of mosquitoes and this knowledge will give a better 

 result tban all the "petrolization" practiced by the sexagenarians of 

 the Health Department who have to employ donble spectacles in order 

 to distinguish the larvae. By teaching the children the reasons why the 

 larvae oi' mosquitoes sliould be dcstroyed \Yherever tliey are found, a 

 powerl'nl assistance will be rciiiificd tlie governmeiil iii its eampaigii 

 against tlic mosquito. Cliildreu are good assistauts of the entomologist 

 and maiiy rare S])ecies Avbich have fallen into the liands of the entomo- 

 logists, have been due to the swiftness of children. 



Our object in this stndy is not simply to make a oontribution to 

 the entouiology of differeut couutries, but tu sni>ply also a catalogue 

 of Cuban luosquitoes, witii test and drawings, in whielí will bf found 

 the different speeies alrcail> dcscriluMl in foreign [¡eriodicals, as well 

 as those studied by om- dislinguished frieud Dr. J. R. Taylor, of 

 "Las Animas" Hospital aiid published in a Cuban Review, the Re- 

 vista de Medicina 'Propicai t'dnndcd li\ the eiuinent Dr., luán 

 (! ni leras. 



Taylor 's work has the merit of being writteu from a praetical sani- 

 lary i)oint of view, siucc it givcs siieciid attciition to the liiology of 

 the mosquito. 



As Dr. M. 6. Lebredo has very well said, the tirst work on the 

 classifieation of the niosquitoes found iii Ilavana is that of Dr. .fohn 

 R. Taylor. Taylor i)ublished a synoptical tablc of the genera of mos 

 quitoes found in Havana which ^\^ D. Coíiuillctt ]irei>ared from the 

 s|)ecies forwarded by 'i'a_\ lor hiiiisclf to Professor I;. (J. Howard for 

 identilicatiou. 



Onr exeursions in scarcli of tlic differeut siiecies of mosquitoes 

 described in this paper were made in the woods along the banks of 

 the river Aiiguanabo, which we explored very assiduonsly in company 

 with our frieud Dr. Taylor. whom 1 wish to thank very sineerely here 

 for his valuable assistanee. In other places (Candelaria, Mangas and 

 San Cristóbal), where we have spent only a few hours, we have found 

 speeies before unknown, which proves conclusively that much still 

 remains to be diseovered with regard to our mosquitoes and we may 

 well suppose that an exploration of the entire Island would tri-ple +' 

 discoveries so far made. 



Mosquitoes described by Taylor 



Sub-familv cuíicidae (Culicides) 



(1) Stegomyia fasciata (Theobald) 



(2) Culex pipiens (Linnaeus) 



(3) Culex nigrituUis (Zetterstedt) 



