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disease, but because their buzzing- is aanioyiug, while the 

 punctures they inflect in tlie skin arc painful and 

 often very irritating-. 



Tlie Mosijuito {Anophcle:^ ^nit,ralipcnni\). Tlie 

 conveyor of the parasite of malaria. 



Althougli mahiria has Ijeen Ivnown for centuries, and 

 accurate accounts of it are to l)e found in the works 

 of Hippocrates, Galen, and Celsus, its cause was not 

 detected until Laveran in 1880 discovered in the blood 

 of patients suffering from malaria a protozoon, since 

 named Plasmodium maJarire. Blood parasites of this 



