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Joblot. He fignrc^s the larva, wliicli is recognizable as 

 that of Anopheles. The Dutch observer, Meinert, gave 

 the next accurate description and figure of the larva in 

 1886, and other descriptions and figures Avere published 

 by the Italian, Ficalbi, in 1899, and the Englishman, Giles, 

 in 1900. Th(^ various stag"es of one of these species were 

 described and tig-ured in 1900 h\ the Italian, Grassi, and 

 by the present writer. At the time I published these ob- 

 servations, I supposed that I was the first person in xVmer- 

 ica to have seen Anopheles larviie, but Dr. Charles Sedg-- 

 wick Minot, of the Harvard Medical Colleg-e, wrote me, 

 after seeing" the first edition of Bulletin 25, that lie raised 

 Anopheles twenty-five years or more ago without suspect- 

 ing' its identity. At that time Dr. Minot was much in- 

 terested in entomology. He has since hunted up his old 

 notes, and has i)ublislied an account of his earl 3^ observa- 

 tions in the journal of the Boston Society of Medical 

 Sciences, vol. v., January, 1901, 



The species which I studied in full in the summer of 

 1900, and which was treated in my Bulletin 25 as Anophe- 

 les qimdrimaculatus Say, has been definitely decided to 

 be identical with the Anoplieles maculipennh of Europe.* 



* Osten SMcken, Entomologists Monthly Mdrinzine for December, 

 1900, paj^es 281-283, shows that Anopheles clavigcr Fab. has no exist- 

 enee. It never existed either as a type specimen, or as a scientilic con- 

 cept of a species. The correct name, therefore, of tlie common Anoph- 

 eles of northern and central Europe is Anopheles TivicuUpennis ]\I., of 

 which our American A. gimdrlmaculatvs Sa}^ is a synonym, as has been 

 shown by Theobald. Riithe wrote in Oken's Isis (1831, p. 1203), as 

 pointed out by Osten Sacked in the above article, as follows : 



" Anopheles 7nacuUpennis M. h not uuconwnnn in the ]Mark Branden- 

 burg-, in localities where water is abundant ; for instance, it is quite 



