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(4) Culex jamaicensis (Theobald) 



(5) Culex taen iorhyn chu s (Wiedemanu) 



(6) Culex confirma tus (Ari'ibalzaga) 



(7) Culex sollicitans (Walker) 



(8) Pso ro ]) li o j-;i li o w a r d i i (Coquillett) 



Siilt raiiiilia, A iU)|ilit'liii;it' 



(y) Ano i> li e I t*s a rg >• r i t a v s is albipes (Theobald) 



(10) Cy p] o 1 e pj) t e r o II orabbamii (Theobald) 



(11) I' 1- a 11 o t a f 11 i ;i 1 o w i i (Theoliald) 



The oldest¿vurk wiiicli we |Hjsses.s ou luo-íquitoes is unquestionably 

 that oí" Eamón de la Sagra entitled, Historia Física, Políticay 

 Natural de la Isla de Cu lia of which a Frenelí edition 

 more complete thau tlie Spanisli Avas pnhlislu'd in tlie foUowiiig year. 



The par! iclatixi' hi llic hipti'ia in lilis wmk was writtcii hy .1. 

 Bigot, who adoi>t('d tlie classilieation of the emiueiit Latreille. lí is 

 there ])ointed out by Cueriu Aleiieville that the iiaturalists of that day 

 liad iiot paid iiiuch attciitimí to the Diptcra of ( 'ulia, and vcrv fcw 

 Cuban speeies were thereí'ore knoAvii. 



In the Frencli edition ol' this work uiily Iwo Cuban s[)e('ies are 

 described, namely: the Culex mosquito (Eoliineau Desvoidy), to-day 

 known as the Stegoniyia Caloj^us (Meingen) and the Culex 

 Cubensis (Bigot), improjierly known by tlie ñame ot' Culex [lipiens 

 (Linnaeus) a European siiecies known >inre tlie time of Eéaunmr. AVe 

 llave examined Librarles in Havaua, lioth ])ublie and pn'ivate, and we 

 have not succeeded in finding anytliing but the Memorias sobi-e 

 la Historia Natural de lalsla de C u b a , piublished in 1851, 

 by Felipe Poey, in which our Oecacta f urens similar to the mos- 

 quito are described in a masterly manner, and which Blanchard seems 

 to inelude among the gemís Ceratopogon. This insect possesses excel- 

 lent anatomical conditions for the ti'ansmission of infections by means 

 of its cibarious organs, which have been perfectly dissected by this 

 eminent French naturalist. 



Tile jején, which is the insect to which we refer, has the leugth 

 one French line (?), as Poey said, and in liis monmnentail work. Les 

 Mous tiques Blanchard devotes special attention lo this inscect. 



It should be said that although Poey did not imblish any work on 

 the mosquitoes of Cuba, he made a study of them and specially of the 

 A n (I |) li c I (' s a I b i lii a n u s. as is provcd liy a drawiiig made by hhn 

 wliich we iiossess, as well as by some unpublishe.d notes on the mos- 

 qnitoes of Cuba which insertbelow. 



Poey was the first to take to Paris (m 1817 to 1820) for its clas- 

 sification, the mosquito which later became associated witli the uame of 

 Dr. Fiíilay, when it was ]iroved to be the transmitter of yellow fever, 

 although Theobald gives the piñority the naturalist Meingen (1818). 



