A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . Anopheles punctipennis. Male. (After Howard.) A. crucians is a Southern form, believed to be the carrier of the per-nicious, tropical, sestivo-autumnal fever, but not the only one, for inSt. Lucia, for example, Avhere the great majority of cases of malariaare of the pernicious type, the common mosquito is A. albipes. Fig. Anopheles punctipennis. Female. (After Howard.) Unlike Culices and Stegomyia, the Anopheles do not breed in rain-water barrels, troughs, cisterns, tin cans, pitcher plants, and other MosQirrmi


A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers . Anopheles punctipennis. Male. (After Howard.) A. crucians is a Southern form, believed to be the carrier of the per-nicious, tropical, sestivo-autumnal fever, but not the only one, for inSt. Lucia, for example, Avhere the great majority of cases of malariaare of the pernicious type, the common mosquito is A. albipes. Fig. Anopheles punctipennis. Female. (After Howard.) Unlike Culices and Stegomyia, the Anopheles do not breed in rain-water barrels, troughs, cisterns, tin cans, pitcher plants, and other MosQirrmiK OfiO smuU r(C(;j)l:icl(!M, \m\ in jkioIs, puddles, (ViiclwH, , aixl oilierbodies of Htiigiiiuit or hiii very hIowIv moving wulor. Jiie Jarvfc thrive;in clean or ioul water, hiil, nol in lliat wliioli in ho foul an U) .stink ; tlioycannot live; in wait- oi v<iy l» water, nor where (here in ia)»i<Imovement. Imo. 100.


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