Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 97.—Culex fatigans; male; x 4. Figure 98.—female. Figure 99.—Yellow- fever Mosquito {Stegomyia fasciata); male ; x ; x 4 times ; after Theobald. Figure 100.—The same ; abdomen with light bands at the bases of the segments; thorax withdark lines. Head and thorax deep brown ; thorax with two or three duskylongitudinal lines, and bearing golden brown, narrow, curved scales, * It is known that in many tropical countries this species conveys the germsof the blood-infecting nematode worm {Filaria Bancrofti), which produce

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Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 97.—Culex fatigans; male; x 4. Figure 98.—female. Figure 99.—Yellow- fever Mosquito {Stegomyia fasciata); male ; x ; x 4 times ; after Theobald. Figure 100.—The same ; abdomen with light bands at the bases of the segments; thorax withdark lines. Head and thorax deep brown ; thorax with two or three duskylongitudinal lines, and bearing golden brown, narrow, curved scales, * It is known that in many tropical countries this species conveys the germsof the blood-infecting nematode worm {Filaria Bancrofti), which produces thefatal disease called Filariasis of man. Whether this disease has been known inBermuda I do not know, but it might easily be introduced there by infectedsailors or soldiers from other countries by the aid of mosquitoes of this similar disease in dogs, caused by Filaria imniitis, is transmitted, also, fromdog to dog, bj species of Culex, hence it has been called the Filaria-hearingMosquito. The C. fatigans has been found, also, to be one

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