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MOSQUITOES 



Mosquitoes," published as Bulletin 25, new series, of the 

 Division of Entomolog"y, of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, August, 1900, and has been so named in the 

 published reports of the Commission. There now seems 

 very good ground for the belief that the wide-spread 



Fig. 32. 



■Adult Male of Steyomyia fasciata from side ; enlarged. 

 (Author's illustration. ) 



tropical mosquito usually referred to as Culex tceiiiatus of 

 Wiedemann, is really a synonym of this species. It will 

 be remembered that down to the present time we have 

 no evidence that any other mosquitoes than those of the 

 g-enus Anopheles transmit malaria, and that so far as 

 known all species of this genus have this pathological 



