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1. Maringouin - Magarhina. Megarhina is a new genus of [illegible] recent creation (founded by Des voidy). and therefore

2. Subgenera - evidently he does not know the word species

3. Mosquito - probably meaning small fly in spanish

4. Cul. pipiens occurring in N. America

5. Megarhina with inumerable subgenera. again compose etc.

6. palpae (instead of palpi). - shorter than what?

7. Wings. - Prismatic colors, -

study of nervures. - All what is said about them is nonsense.

8. Subgenera again!

9.) - He evidently never looked on any wing through a microscope

10.) across the ignorance how to kill with chloroform. -

11.) Where have you described them? The definition of type is excellent indeed.

12. because the insects were brought over

13. Subgenera again. over "They are this etc" Who? subgenera? " To prete

14. Nonsense.

15. This last wing is the most absurd of all. To pretend that All Culex All have the same neuration, with very slight differences.

16. What is a quiet eddy?

17. All these parts are so startling that it would be interesting to know where he got them?

18. Not true. No dipteron is known having eggs ona footstalk. And no Culex lays

[written on the right half of the page] (he evidently means species; but unfortunately for him the Genus Megarhina contains but very few species. Only one is mentioned in my Catalogue as occurring in N. America. The general, the number of species of true, stinging culiidae is rat not at all innumerable; on the contrary it is one of the small genera.

[page turned, stamped] J. Kennicott Brenton Collections

its eggs in sand or mud, although, under N19 the contrary is affirmed.

20. What a d-d bad naturalist

21. The figure has 5 legs

22. Nonsense, the whole description. Lids they never have, the idea is ridiculous

23. Ridiculous distinction of night and day Mosquitos! the body of the day mosquitoes All There are no mosquitoes of apple green color! [circle]

24. The references from Loewenhoek and others correct and copied from some book. But after that, instead of saying that according to modern investigation (vide Westwood) the en Culex has 7 pieces in its proboscis, he prefers establishing his own theory.

25. Nonsense, impossible to understand

27. Contradiction

28. What does that mean?

29. A stinging gnat Culex of this description never existed

30. They are too small for whippoorwill, who feed on be larger insects, especially beetles; they are also too small for most dragonflies