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any relation between plant and insect whereby the plant receives a bene- 

 fit ? Do the wrigglers in any way prevent a foulness of the water from 

 the insect fragment until the plant has absorbed what it needs? 



It is noticeable that during the whole winter only a single example of 

 Culex pungens was taken in the barns, storehouses or cranberry sorting 

 rooms, though they were diligently sought. 



Anopheles punctipennis were found quite abundantly, between 20 and 

 30 specimens having been taken on the windows of the sorting rooms ; 

 but no Anopheles larvae were found in any of the collected leaves. As a 

 Jerseyman, Mr. Brakeley ordinarily pays little attention to mosquitoes, 

 but he could not easily overlook Anopheles did it occur in any numbers 

 in summer. He says it does not, and that he has never seen as many 

 during his years of residence in the pines, as he did this past winter. 



My own experience is similar : I remember that about three years ago 

 I was annoyed by Anopheles very early in the year in my store room in 

 the basement of the station building. Later on I saw nothing of them, 

 and I can say positively that the species of this genus form no part of the 

 often considerable swarms in and near New Brunswick. 



In the cellar of my residence I took Culex pungens, female, March 

 22nd, flying. It could not well have developed there, and, of course, 

 there can be no doubt that the species hibernates as an adult as well as 

 in the larval stage. 



These pitcher plant leaves contain, besides mosquito larvae, considera- 

 ble numbers of long, white, worm-like larvae which Mr. Brakeley suc- 

 ceeded in breeding. Some examples submitted to Mr. C. W. Johnson he 

 pronounced to be Aedes fuscus O. S. ,* a species by no means commonly 

 observed. 



The present series of notes are not by any means a complete record of 

 the observations made on the wriggler colonies at New Brunswick and in 

 the pines and they are not even ended ; but they will serve to call atten- 

 tion to one or two heretofore unobserved facts. They also contain a sug- 

 gestion : Is it not probable that the mosquitoes that swarm in Alaska and 

 Arctic regions may pass the winter in the larval stage, frozen in the solid 

 ice, ready, when the melting times comes, to mature rapidly. 



Hiding places for adults are occasionally somewhat scant in such re- 

 gions, and the swarms are said to be even more numerous and vicious 

 than they are in New Jersey. 



Mr. S. T. Kemp, of Elizabeth, N. J., has started for Arizona, where he 

 will spend six months in collecting insects. We wish him much success. 



Mr. VV. F. Fiske severed his connection with the Experimental Sta- 

 tion at Durham, N. H., to accept the position of Assistant State Entomo- 

 logist of Georgia. His new address will therefore be Atlanta, Ga. 



* Later examples bred were Chironotnus sp. , hence at least one other 

 species breeds in these plants. 



