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Institution) who by suggestion of Dr. Howard, classified and 

 returned to us our mosquitoes. We cannot overlook, either, the 

 important help given to us in this work by Dr. John Guiteras, 

 Director of the Bureau of Health, and Mr. J. R. Taylor, Chief 

 of the Laboratory at Las Animas Hospital, Havana. 



We show enlarged photographs of the principal species, 

 which facilitate the study of same. These microphotographs were 

 obtained with the obj. 64 m/m focal distance, E. Leitz, and 

 some have been lantern projections. 



Those wishing to fathom the subject of our mosquitoes 

 more deeply may look <up, among other works, the second vo- 

 lume of SANIDAD Y BENEFICENCIA, 1909, official organ of the 

 Health Department of the Republic of Cuba. 



We give herewith only a brief extract of a few species, other- 

 wise we might give these notes undue extension, when their 

 special object is to serve as a guide for the study of the 

 collection, which is preceded by the catalogue of the mosquitoes 

 of the Republic of Cuba, the species of which are as follows : 



Anopheles albimanu-s, Wiedeman. 



vestitipennis, Dyar & Knab. 

 grabhamii, Theobald. 

 crucians, Wiedemaii. 

 Megarhinus haemorrhoidalis, Fabricius. 



portoricensis, von Roder? 



Bancroftia persephasa, Dyar & Knab. 

 Psorophora howardii, Coquillett. 

 Aedes sayi, Dyar & Knab. 

 pazosi, Dyar & Knab. 

 schwarzi, Dyar & Knab. 

 pertinax, Grabharn. 

 jamaicensis, Theobald. 

 pigmeus, Theobald, -f 

 sollicitans, Walker. 

 bracteatus, Coquillett. 

 condolescens, Dyar & Knab. 

 scapularis, Rondani. 

 mediovittata, Goquillett. 



