MOSQUITOES OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA 



To the Health Department of the Republic of Cuba is due 

 the appearance at this World's Exposition of the greatest collec- 

 tion of mosquitoes which in the course of nine years we have been 

 able to gather and classify, that is, since Medical Entomology 

 acquired the importance it has to-day in the genesis of infectious 

 diseases, transmitted by insects,* where blood suckers (diptera) 

 take an important place by their complicated cibarious parts, 

 irmoculating germs developed in their interior. The Island of 

 Cuba, the first in showing this, has created a special Depart- 

 ment (Sanidad y Bene'ficencia) in charge of a Secretary, 

 Dr. Enrique Nunez. 



It was high time that the world over should recognize Fin- 

 lay as the discoverer of the trans-mission of the yellow fever 

 through the proboscis of the female mosquito Stegomyia, thus 

 rendering the tropical countries as inhabitable as any other 

 region in the world, and making possible the most daring works 

 of engineering, such as the Panama Canal, and directing in- 

 dustry and commerce into places where formerly it was certain 

 death. 



"Up to the present time 45 well-defined species of mosqui- 

 toes have been found on this Island, as follows: 



4 anopheles. 



2 megarhinus. 



1 bancroftia. 



1 psorophora. 

 14 aedes. 



1 aedeomyia. 



