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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
claviger on the Continent—this sanguinary habit is not exhibited 
at all, according to my experience, and I have lived for years where 
it is extremely common, some years appearing in great numbers, 
and every year in more or less abundance. Moreover, people 
who have stayed with me, who have been subject to severe 
annoyance from mosquitoes, have never been touched by them, 
A. Resting position of Anopheles (left) and Calcx (right) (after Waterhouse). 
Fig. 21. 
B. Resting position of Anopheles maculipennis, Meigen, on 
a horizontal ceiling and on a side wall (after Howard). 
although numbers were present every night in 
the rooms. Yet Professor Grassi has proved 
that this species is one which is largely inter¬ 
ested in distributing malarial fever in Italy, 
and certainly there it bites very fiercely. There 
appears to be none, or very little, malaria in 
England, and my investigations tend to show that this Ano¬ 
pheles does not bite here. May not this have some bearing 
on the dying out of this disease in our country, as well 
as the free use of quinine ? On the other hand, A. bifurcatus 
and A. nigripes are both very voracious. The former I can 
verify from personal experience ; the latter, Mr. Terry, of the 
British Museum, informs me is very annoying at Penzance, where 
