A monograph of the Anopheles mosquitoes of India / by S.P. James and W. Glen Liston.

  • Sydney Price James
Date:
1904
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A monograph of the Anopheles mosquitoes of India / by S.P. James and W. Glen Liston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Favourite breeding grounds. as regards their breeding grounds, into at least three groups, viz. (1) those which breed almost exclusively in running water, (2) those which breed in shallow muddy pools in the vicinity of dwellings and in tins and gumlahs of water ; and (3) those which breed at some distance from houses in deep natural pools with much aquatic vegetation and in marshes. The favourite breeding grounds of some of the species of Indian “ anopheles” may now be summed up A. listoni.—The larvm of this species are found most frequently in quickly running streamlets with grassy edges. Their presence in a stream can be detected only by dipping with a tin among the grass and vegetation at the edge of the stream and in the pools and backwaters. A. cMlicifacies.—This species is essentially a breeder in slowly moving water. It will be found in canals, ditches and streams when quite absent from neighbouring shallow stagnant pools. Irrigation 50]