512 
“ Patagia ” of prothorax of mosquito, 55 
Paunch of mosquito, 77-78 
Pawpaw plant, alleged deterrent to mosqui- 
toes, 415 
Peat, alleged deterrent to mosquitoes, 417 
Pecten of respiratory tube of mosquito larva, 
88, 93 
Pennyroyal oil, oil of citronella, black tar and 
mutton tallow as protection against mos- 
quitoes and black flies, 366 
Pericardial cells of mosquito, 77, 83 
Perch, pirate. (See Aphredoderus.) 
“Perch,” practical use as enemy of mosqui- 
toes, 403 
Permanganate of potash as mosquito larvi- 
cide, 380 
Pernicious fever, name for disease caused by 
Plasmodium falciparum, 191 
Pernicious malaria caused by Plasmodium 
falciparum, 189 
Perspiration, attractiveness to yellow-fever 
mosquito, 113 
Petrochelidon lunifrons, enemy of mosqui- 
toes, 178 
Petroleum (see also Oil and Kerosene). 
Petroleum as mosquito larvicide, 381-383 
Petroleum as mosquito larvicide, disadvan- 
tages to its use in tropical regions, 383 
Petroleum, saponated, and iodine as remedy 
for mosquito bites or wasp stings, 377 
Pettit, R. H., on destruction of mosquitoes 
by Entomophthora, 157 
Pewee, wood. (See Myiochanes virens.) 
Phalarope, northern. (See Lobipes lobatus.) 
Phalarope, Wilson. (See Steganopus tri- 
color.) 
Pharyngeal opening of mosquito larva, 87 
Pharynx of mosquito adult, 39, 42, 48, 75-76 
Pharynx of mosquito larva, 85 
Phinotas oil as mosquito larvicide, 380-381, 
384 
Phebe, Sayornis phebe, enemy of mosquitoes, 
178 
“Phu-lo” plant, alleged deterrent to mos- 
quitoes, 417 
Phul plant, properties and uses, 417 
Pike, Lucius americanus, enemy of Ano- 
pheles, 408 
Pipistrella europwi, host of Lecithodendrium 
ascidia, 162 
Pisobia bairdi, enemy of mosquitoes, 179 
Pisobia maculata, enemy of mosquitoes, 179 
Pisobia minutilla, enemy of mosquitoes, 179 
Pistia, mosquito larve that extract air from 
its submerged roots, 149 
Pitcher-plant mosquito (see also Wyeomyia 
smithii). 
Pitcher-plant mosquito, food of larve, 151 
Pitcher-plant, Sarracenia purpurea, larve of 
mosquitoes found therein, 184 
Plants and trees alleged to be deterrent to 
mosquitoes, 413-421 
Plants, enemies of mosquitoes, 156 
Plants, poisonous, as mosquito larvicides, 387- 
388 
Plasmodiide, parasites of insects, mammals, 
and birds, 159, 189 
Plasmodium. 189 
INDEX 
Plasmodium, hematozoan near it found in 
cases of dengue fever, 306 
Plasmodium, how to diagnose the species, 190- 
191 
Plasmodium of monkey and other animals— 
can it be transmitted to man?, 193 
Plasmodium, parasites of man, monkeys, and 
squirrels, 189 
Plasmodium, probability of a fourth spécies, 
192 
Plasmodium, races resistant to quinine, 194 
Plasmodium falciparum, causative organism 
in pernicious, tropical, or estivo-autum- 
nal malaria, 189 
Plasmodium falciparum, characteristics as 
seen under microscope, 191-192 
Plasmodium falciparum, parthenogenesis of 
macrogamete, 190 
Plasmodium falciparum, various names for 
disease caused by it, 191 
Plasmodium malarie, causative organism in 
regular quartan fever, 189 
Plasmodium malarie, characteristics as seen 
under microscope, 191 
Plasmodium malarie, parthenogenesis 
macrogamete probable, 190 
Plasmodium precoz=Plasmodium  falci- 
parum, 189 
Plasmodium precoz, transmission to canary 
birds, 261 me 
Plasmodium vivax, causative organism in be- 
nign tertian fever, simple or double, 189 
Plasmodium vivax, characteristics as seen 
under microscope, 192 
Plasmodium vivax, parthenogenesis of mac- 
rogamete, 190 
Plate of ninth segment of abdomen of mos- 
quito larva, 89 
sap ee trimaculata, enemy of mosquitoes, 
in 
Pleura of thorax of mosquito, 55 
Pleure, vestiture, in mosquito, 74 
aa membrane of abdomen of mosquito, 
7 
Pleural suture of mesothorax of mosquito, 58 
Pleural suture of metathorax of mosquito, 59 
Pleural suture of prothorax of mosquito, 57 
Piiny, reference to mosquitoes’ “voice” and 
to “stings” of Hymenoptera versus Dip- 
tera, 8 
Plover, Zgialitis semipalmata, enemy of mos- 
quitoes, 179 
Plover, ring-necked. 
palmata.) 
Plover, semipalmated. 
palmata.) 
“ Pneumatic sacs ” of Giles in mosquito, 78 
Peciliide. (See Minnows, top.) 
Poison glands and ducts of mosquito, 49-50 
Poison ivy. (See Rhus toxicodendron.) 
Poison of mosquito bite, 316-318 
Poison of mosquitoes, discussion by Hum- 
boldt, 18 
Pollywogs and mosquitoes, 177 
Polychromophilus, parasites of bats, 189 
Posterior cross-vein of mosquito wing, 61 
Pasion sclerite of mesothorax of mosquito, 
(See Zgialitis semi- 
(See Agialitis semi- 
