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Habits of Adult Mosquitoes. 
it seems to be common. Both A. nigripes and A. bifurcatus 
are malaria carriers, but are not nearly so abundant as A. maculi - 
pennis in England. The male Anopheles is not of a sanguinary 
nature. 
1. 
2. 
Fig. 22. 
Anopheles and Culex resting. 
1 and 3. Anopheles Rossii. 2. Culex fat igans. 
(Photographed from life by Lt.-Col. Giles.) 
(Enlarged six times.) 
In the genus Culex we find a great variety of different habits. 
Some species, like C. pipiens and C. fatigans, are almost exclu¬ 
sively house forms; whilst others, like C. dorsalis and C. atratus , 
