Genus Toxorhynchitea . 107 
“ Nov. 23rd. One dropped skin and became a pupa. I) 
“ 'Nov. 27, Sunday, 2.10. Blue mosquito in bedroom. Caught 
it in test tube, put it in a tumbler of water, with mosquito 
netting over (water from drum in garden where they have been 
breeding). 
“ I have two large larvae in another glass of water from the 
same drum (from which I took the larvae on Nov. 22nd). I put 
away some of their water and add more from drum each day. 
They seem more active after getting their fresh water. 
“ Nov. 28th. On the top of the mosquito’s tumbler of water 
are fourteen little yellow things (? eggs). 
“Nov. 29th. One or two eggs hatched out. 
“ Nov. 30th. More eggs hatched out. Little white larvae 
swimming about. 
“ Dec. 5th. Big pupa has become a big blue mosquito, and ci 
male. 
“ Jan. 13th. Put large larva in spirit-bottle. Does not appear 
to have grown since Nov. 22nd, when I put it in tumbler, but is 
apparently the last I can get. All the drum family appear to 
have died. Water has risen in drum much higher than usual 
and reached a rusty part. Perhaps rusty scum on top of water 
has killed them all. 
“ Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 1907. Just before 11.30 a.m. was 
typing in visitors’ room, and heard a blue mosquito singing. 
Caught it in test tube and put it into specimen glass three-parts 
full of water, in which some flowers had been. Tied a bit of old 
canvas over, with two stalks of swamp grass through it. Almost 
immediately mosquito went close to water and lodged itself by 
grass and glass, and laid a tiny white egg, just a speck. Put a 
scrap of banana skin on the canvas. 
-“ Thursday, Dec. 5th, 8.30 a.m. Seven or eight little oval¬ 
shaped, fawn-coloured things appear to hang from the surface 
of water near together, but quite separate, say within quarter 
square inch. M’osquito down in water. Cave it a fine stalk of 
grass, and it raised itself. Looking again by better light, I see 
there are perhaps twenty eggs, many close' to the glass. All 
appear to hang from surface of water. 
“ Friday, Dec. 6th. Mosquito on its back in water. Took it 
out in test tube. Eggs still hang as yesterday. 
“Saturday, Dec. 7th. Instead of some of the eggs floating, 
tiny specks of white are wriggling in the water, no larger than a 
bit of fine cotton, and no longer than the width of a pin’s head, 
