Those who have always had it firmly fixed in their minds that the habitat of the mosquito, until it grows wings, is stagnant water, will probably read with some degree of surprise that there is a species the Philippines which manages to pass its early. life under stones in the dry beds of rivers. This, apparently, is the most malignant type of malaria carrier, and those who have made the discovery, the Rockefeller Foundation, have. also found that in this insect's dietary dust forms no inconsiderable ite It is, consequently, proposed to lay meals for the insect carefully loaded with Paris green, an arsenic preparation, with the knowledge that mosquitoes unfortunate enough Partake of the appetizing: meal wil be hurried off to join their forefathers. "While we have no reason to disbelieve the story, it does seem not unlike the fabled method of dealing with the pilex irritans whose demise could be brought about by taking advant risible faculty. it was told us, commenced similarly to the recipe for jugged hare. The insect was first caught, and either its ribs were tickled, of it was told humorous story until it burst into laughter, when a small quantity of the dust' of the domestic bath brick was quickly popped into its 0} mouth. The unfortunate creature's merriment was then quickly changed to pain and despair, ending in a most agonized death. The treatment for the Philippine mosquitoes, involving the use of a poison, appeaty to us as being rather more humane.
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