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Sierra Leone, Grenada, southern Nigeria, and other out-of-the-way 

 portions of the world. Theobald has reported upon the mosquitoes 

 of the Transvaal; Alcock has issued a synopsis of the Anopheline 

 mosquitoes of Africa and the oriental regions; while in the United 

 States the late Frederick Knab, Dyar, and Ludlow (the latter of the 

 Army Medical Museum) have been describing American and Philip- 

 pine forms. Out in Australia Taylor has been working for years on 

 the mosquitoes of that island continent and also of New Guinea, 

 and of recent years has been assisted by Ferguson ; while some of the 

 Dutch entomologists have been doing taxonomic work on the mos- 

 quitoes of the Dutch East Indies, and Lutz and others have been 

 doing similar work in Brazil. 



In looking over the literature of the past seven or eight years, we 

 find that anti-mosquito work, largely from the malaria point of view, 

 has been done by the Japanese in Formosa and by the English in 

 Flong Kong, China. There have been many publications on the work 

 done in India, and there has been established under the British gov- 

 ernment in India a general malaria commission which has held annual 

 meetings at which papers of much importance have been read. Not 

 only has the whole question of malaria at all the principal centers in 

 India been studied by officers of the Indian Medical Service, but 

 malarial mosquito surveys have been made of the Island of Ceylon 

 and of the Andaman Islands, and operations have been carried on 

 with very considerable success at several centers, notably in Madras, 

 in Dacca, at Pusa, and elsewhere. Excellent work has been done 

 in some of the agricultural districts of Ceylon. 



In the Federated Malay States much good work has been done 

 in the way of mosquito reduction in Selangor, and the reports of 

 Watson and Evans indicate excellent results in sub-soil drainage in 

 exterminating breeding places of hill mosquitoes at a cost of $36 an 

 acre for the whole area treated. 



In Burma, Stott has published literature on the malarial mos- 

 quitoes of Mandalay. In Borneo, Roper has studied these mosquitoes 

 in the northern part of the island. In Indo-China, Legendre has 

 reported on the work on the house mosquitoes of Hanoi-Tonking. 



In Java, Van Breeman has worked up the malarial mosquitoes 

 of eastern Java and has started remedial operations. 



In Sumatra, Stanton, Devogel and Swellengrebel and his col- 

 leagues have carried on some excellent investigations Of interest 

 to people in New Jersey are some results reported by Swellen- 



