. . and burst, andthe mosquit te forth with sharpened beak-, andwings attuned to would seem that the re-sult of so much effort oughtto l>e a thing of beauty anda joy forever, but the factis that the product is notworth the lab Professor Riley, the eminent entomologist, • s it is only the female mosquito that bites, and that the same is true of all the tribe of insects. We must accept this statement true, for Professor Riley is paid his salary for finding out such things; but it must be confessed it is a little hard on th
. . and burst, andthe mosquit te forth with sharpened beak-, andwings attuned to would seem that the re-sult of so much effort oughtto l>e a thing of beauty anda joy forever, but the factis that the product is notworth the lab Professor Riley, the eminent entomologist, • s it is only the female mosquito that bites, and that the same is true of all the tribe of insects. We must accept this statement true, for Professor Riley is paid his salary for finding out such things; but it must be confessed it is a little hard on the gentle sex. If it is nottrue, Mr. Riley should be sued tor libel. We usually loo1,beauty and perfection and all that in the Fern m<l it is not pleasant to have « hi ; rudely destroyed. It is strictly ortho dox, however, to fix upon the original woman in t! n of Kden a large part of the responsibility for all our woes in this world, and the female mosquitoes appear properly to share this males just fly around and sing and buz/., but never bite. 200 THK JUMPING FLKA. [May, anybody. In accepting this theory as correct we are forced tobelieve that Mormon ism prevails largely among them. Judgingfrom our experience, each of the males must have a very large [y of wives, who are always hungry. The long black markwhich we are unwillingly compelled to score against the tendersex is made still longer and blacker by the fact that the femalemosquitoes not only do all the biting, but they produce all theeggs to keep up the supply of wrigglers, which in the fullness oftime are developed into a new generation. The following extract from Professor Riley will be appreciated: ••Those who have traveled in summer on the tower Mississippi, or inthe northwest, have the torments which these frail the* can inflict ; at times they di vone from the boat, and on the Northern Pacific, railroad trai only be run with any degree of com- fort by keeping a smudge irj the baggage car, and t
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