Feb., 1903.] 
Entomological Notes. 
377 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Some very practical results in the line of Mosquito warfare are 
presented in the “ Reports on Plans for the Extermination of 
Mosquitoes on the North Shore of Long Island,” published by 
the North Shore Improvement Association,* and accompanied by 
detailed map on large scale. 
Work during the summer of 1901 is reported in detail in a 
carefully prepared volume, while a supplementary report is given 
in pamphlet form issued in the latter part of 1902. Prof. C. B. 
Davenport and Mr. Frank Lutz, who have been responsible for 
the most of the entomological work, have collected a large amount 
of interesting and very valuable matter relating to the habits, 
distribution, breeding places, migration, etc., of the mosquitoes 
of that region. These observations show, perhaps, as the most 
important result, that the greater part of the mosquitoes infesting 
any locality are reared in the immediate vicinity of the houses 
where they become troublesome ; that it is the smaller and quiet 
pools and the minute bodies of water that may occur in old tin 
cans, broken bottles, stumps, etc., rather than the larger bodies, 
that give them the condition to develop, and that while possible 
for some to be brought by winds from other parts of the island, 
this source of supply is of very little importance from the stand- 
point of health or even of annoyance. As stated by Mr. Lutz in 
his last paragraph, “ Finally let us bear in mind that as a rule 
every man is breeding his own mosquitoes, and every man should 
take care of his own property. But, with it all, in a thickly popu- 
lated district, many careful people can be made to suffer by the 
carelssness of one. Here the community, as a whole, should take 
a hand, and through the officers compel the proper precautions 
on the part of those who will not otherwise take them.” 
Prof. S. J. Hunter has recently issued a work on “ Elementary 
Studies in Insect Life” from the Publishing House of Crane and 
Co., of Topeka, which is intended for beginning students in 
Entomology. It is arranged in very attractive form and should 
prove very stimulating to all young people who may have the 
opportunity to work with it. The plan is to present in detail the 
life-histories of two common species, species that may easily be 
obtained and development followed by almost an}- boy or girl, 
these followed by chapters on the habits, senses, instincts and 
relations of insects. There is a short summary of the insect 
groups and instruction in the simple methods of laboratory work. 
While the work is profusely illustrated and many of the figures 
of superior character, there are some which are decidedly inferior, 
Distributed bv Mr. Wilmot T. Cox, Sec'y North Shore Improvement Assoc., No. 40 
Wall St.. N. Y. 
