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A iioplu'lcs HKtc/il I priiin.s has liccii rare tor tlic ])ast two or tlii'cr 

 vcai'S ; in IIM),') it Avas ii<it lakcii at all in tlic larval ('inidition, and 

 in 190(i onlv a single adnlt was bred (.hnu^ 1st) from a eoll(H't(Ml 

 pupa from a "kcttlc-liolo'' at ]\lilll)nrn. 



Anopheles Ixtrhcri. discovered in Xew Jersey last vcar for the 

 tirst time, was turned \\\y hy Air. Brakeley at Bordentown, avIicit he 

 took adults in a hedi-ooni at night: August 14th, one male; August 

 ir)th, oue male and one female, and August 16th, two females. 

 Another male was bred September 11th, from a lot of pupte taken 

 from a tree-hollow at Chester. 



AiW'pheles crucimis were taken in miscellaneous salt marsh col- 

 lections at Barnegat Citv as small and medium-sized larva^ August 

 16th and September (5th, and at South Andioy as large larviv and 

 piupse Septend)er lOtli. 



Psoropliora. ciliata, was apparently rare througliout the season. 

 Few larva? were collected and adults were taken at Belleville, Pat- 

 crson and in the Great Piece meadows. 



Jmytlvlno'soma. musica, adults occurred plentifully in the! Great 

 Piece meadows August 27th. About twenty-iive females were 

 caged and fed on ripe banana and on human blood in hopes of get- 

 ting eggs, but all died within ten days without ovipositing. Several 

 adults were also taken at Lakehurst, Augiist Kith. 



Culex jamaicensis larva? were found at Newark on July 25tlr: in 

 ]>ools along the speedway at ]\[illburn, July 26th, in snnill num- 

 bers associated with (UiJcv pipicus- and Anopheles : and at New 

 Brunswick in lot pools in great numbers on July 20th. This is 

 undoubtedly the most rapidly developing mosquito in New Jersey. 

 'I'll is was demonstrated at Xew Brunswick where larvie as large as 

 those of C. pipiens at maturity appeared July 20th, in ])ools which 

 were absolutely free of mosquito life two days previous. On the 

 21st the larvie were full grown, and among them were several 

 recently-formed pipee. It is worthy of note, perhaps, that, of this 

 series of pools, only one contained C. jmmaleensls and in that no 

 C. pipiens were present, while in the adjacent pools pipiciis were 

 crowded in myriads and not a jcunaicensis larva could be seen. Of 

 llie specimens collected for rearing a single male emerged on -Inly 

 22d, making at most a four-day ]»eriod from the hatching of ihe egi: 

 to the issuance of the adult. On the 2.")d, ninety males and twenty- 

 iive females emerged and all the larva' had pu])ated. showing that the 



