EXPEKIMEXT STATION KKl'OIJT. (i57 



Tliis report needs ]itlle edinnient; it is clear and to the point, 

 and while the experiment is wi'itten down a. failnre it has tanght ns 

 Avliat ninst be avoided if snecess is to be secured, and it has tanght 

 lis something concerning the limitations of the species. Ct)noern- 

 ing the desirability of securing the introduction of these little min- 

 nows into- the State theirei seems little' room, for donbt, bnt the task 

 is really beyond the scope of the mosquito work and should be 

 placed where it belongs, i. e., with the fish commission. There is 

 no reason to beilieve that this commission will not Ijc willing and 

 fully competent to do all that can be done if the niattcn- is referred 

 to it with sufficient funds to cover the expenses invnl\f(l. 



MOSQUITOES OF THE SEASON. 

 Notes by John A. Orossbeok. 



The summer of 100() was rather a rainy one until the latter 

 part of August, conseqiu'iitly favorable for prolific production of 

 mosquitoes, and complaints were received from many points in the 

 State. Uj^on investigation, the species in most cases proved to be 

 (Jvlex -pipiens, the common house mosquit<:). This species is in 

 some respects more of a nuisance than the salt marsh form, this 

 latter being content to remain ■outdoors (^r to enter houses on the 

 clothing, while the former's habit is to force its way into dwell- 

 ings — through the meshes of the screen, if there is no more con- 

 venient method. As a rule, such complaints came from localities 

 without the range of flight of the salt marsh species, but this does 

 not mean that salt marsh mosquitoes have been less in numbers 

 than usual, except in the drained areas, or that inland towns 

 fared worse than shore municipalities, but the shore communities 

 are never without mosquitoes in summer and the presence of addi- 

 tional specimens was not so marke<l. 



The house mosquito also occurs along shore, sometimes in consid- 

 erable nunil>ers. The weather conditions of the season, as else- 

 Avhere, favored their devel«i])inent more than in ordinary years, 

 but (.'. solUcitaiis and C. ranfator are always the predoininating 

 species, and so C. pipien.'i is much less noticed than Avould hv the 

 case if salt marsh forms were absent, or nearly so. For instance, 

 at Monmouth Beach, prior to 1904, one could collect hundreds of 

 specimens, and most of them Avould be found to be C. soil let tans 



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