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covered b}- thin stockings only often suffer frightfully. I have 

 seen little ones with their legs covered with bites, swollen and 

 sometimes bleeding; really ill and crying from pain. 



It is this species that, in conjunction with cantator, makes 

 screened porches necessary and the burning of Chinese punk and 

 other repellants at night desirable. It is no exaggeration to say 

 that half the pleasure derivable in the resorts along the New 

 Jersey Coast is lost because of the annoyance caused by this 

 insect. It has one good point, however; it ddes not make any 

 special effort to get indoors. At New Brunswick, where my 

 house is fairly well screened. solUcitans does not get in more 

 than once or twice during the summer, while C. pipicns and 

 Anophe'les punctipcnnis work their way in despite screens. Even 

 along shore the indoor mosquitoes are nearly always pipiens, 

 though solUcitans may be plentiful outside. Mr. Brakeley, whose 

 place at Lahawa}- is in the midst of the area of solUcitans inva- 

 sion, usually sits in his study in the evening with windows on 

 both sides open and unscreened. Yet soUicitans rarely comes in, 

 though periurhans and even cantator come in freely and bite 

 readily. 



The subject of mosquito migration has been already dealt 

 Avith, and in this connection it is only necessary tO' say here that 

 a large proportion of all the fem.ale specimens that mature on the 

 marsh leave it soon after they are fully developed and fly in- 

 land — a longer or shorter distance, as conditions may determine. 

 All these migrants are sterile, and no matter how small the brood 

 on the marsh, some of them always fly from it. From these 

 breeding places the species covers the entire Cape May penin- 

 sula — practically the entire pine area — extends up the Delaware 

 nearly to Philadelphia ; indeed, it does reach the Philadelphia 

 Neck in some seasons and in general reaches inland a distance 

 from twenty to forty miles. Assisted by cantator, it dominates 

 the territory to the top of the first ridge of the Orange or 

 Watchung mountains, and sometimes extends beyond to the sec- 

 ond ridge. From the Newark meadows it extends north to 

 Paterson and covers all the intermediate territory. It does not 

 in this territory quite equal cantator in number and distribution. 



Mr. Brakeley, at my request, kept records of the dates at 

 which the insects first appeared at Lahaway, and in 1903 one 

 example was taken on each of May 27th and 29th. In 1904 

 single individuals were taken May 23d and 24th. The latest 

 recorded date was October 8th, 1903, when a specimen was 

 taken attempting to bite. On the marshes the species appears 

 late in April, or early in May, and usually lasts until late Oc- 

 tober. 



