Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ? W i J ? .. Fig. 219. Anopheles maculipennis, male and female. specific identification, and received the informationthat they were only a species of gnat {Anophelesmaculipennis), previously known as British, and of which we figure the male and female, drawn fromthe Woolwich specimens. So far the evidencebreaks down, and we are still sceptical about Mos-quitoes in England. 4 notice by Professor West-wood in the Gardeners Chronicle of August 8thfavours this scepticism, and is to the
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ? W i J ? .. Fig. 219. Anopheles maculipennis, male and female. specific identification, and received the informationthat they were only a species of gnat {Anophelesmaculipennis), previously known as British, and of which we figure the male and female, drawn fromthe Woolwich specimens. So far the evidencebreaks down, and we are still sceptical about Mos-quitoes in England. 4 notice by Professor West-wood in the Gardeners Chronicle of August 8thfavours this scepticism, and is to the followingeffect:— My opinion having been requested on the subjectof the mosquitoes, said to have been introduced intothis country from the West Indies during the presenthot weather, I am under the necessity of saying thatI entirely discredit any such occurrence havingtaken place. Every year in the hottest part of thesummer our common gnat {Culex pipiens) is de-veloped very numerously and very rapidly, and nosooner does it make its appearance in the wingedstate than it (or, rather, only the females) imme-diately wants
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