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Aedes niger, Giles. 



Principal characteristics: proboscis with white band, 

 abdomen witli white basal bands, and feet with bands of same 

 color. Like the culex sollicitans it is a sea coast mosquito. It flies 

 on deck when boats tie up at Jucaro, Isle of Pines, in large 

 quantities in the early morning. Once we caught a specimen in 

 a tank in Ceiba del Agua. Very common in the Isle of Pines 

 in July, and on the North and South coast in 'Western Cuba. 



x plutocraticus, Dyar & Knab. 

 Very scarce in this city. 



Stegomyia calopus, Meigen. ( Aides, according to Dyar& Knab) 



A mosquito easily distinguished, both sexes having a silver 

 lyre of two strings on its back. It is the yellow fever transmitter. 

 A town mosquito breeding its larvae in rain water barrels. 

 Abundant throughout the year ; and to this same abundance in 

 the towns is due in part the success of the Health Department 

 of Cuba in banishing yellow fever from the Island, endemic in 

 Colonial times. It may live captive for 145 days (Dr. Guiteras.) 



Acdc omyia squamipennis, Lynch-Arribalzaga. 



Wing scales very similar to those of the mansonia titillans. 

 Abundant on the banks of the Ariguanabo river, 



