28 MOSQUITOES 



selves there. Taminco and Yera Cruz, both low-lying- 

 cities, had always had mosquitoes in numbers. The City 

 of Mexico, lying- on a table-land 7,000 feet above the sea- 

 level, and Avitli a cool and pleasant climate, having- no 

 mosquitoes, thus with the addition of railroad facilities 

 became infested. 



Mr. C. P. Lounsburv, government entomologist of the 

 Cape of Good Hope (in litt.), is responsible for the state- 

 ment that the railroads in Cape Colony have been re- 

 sponsible for taking" mosquitoes to many inland towns 

 whicli before the advent of the iron horse were quite free 

 from the pest. Another correspondent gives the details 

 of a precisely similar introduction of mosquitoes into a 

 high -lying Missouri town. 



In a simihir way, stage-coaches are responsible for the 

 spread of mosquitoes. Grassi, the Italian investigator, 

 states that he counted two hundred specimens of Anoph- 

 eles on the inside of a coach, during a drive lasting two 

 hours through the plains of Capaccio, and the same 

 observer has recorded the capture of malarial mosquitoes 

 in a railwa\^ carriage travelling from Florence to Berlin. 



Queer Places in which Mosquitoes Breed. 



In the report of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine's Malaria Expedition to Sierra Leone, it is stated 

 that mosquitoes were found breeding in the broken bot- 

 tles which Avere placed upon the top of a stone wall to 

 act as a clieval de /rise, and that they were found also 

 breeding in the flower vases on the tables in the houses 



