New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-16
BAD DAY FOR "SKEETERS."
Hit by ETterminatOrs- ont Dare
Come Back Till Spring.

The National Mosquito determination Society at
its second annual convention, which opened yester-
day IN the Aquarium, changed its the
American determination Society. and listened to
Frank Moss's criminal Indictment of the mos
quito. Mr.. Moss at first felt unable even TO sum-
Marie half the crimes of which the mosquito IS
guilty, and asked Recorder Golf to collaborate with
him. The Recorders health would permit him
to take up such intricate and stupendous task,
and Mr.. Moss had to draw up the Indictment with
out other aid. in the Court OF Justice without
Mercy; Special Mosquito Sessions; Special Term.
December 1894" The complainant in the is
All Humanity, and all female mosquitoes, espe-
cally the culeX and the anOpheles and stogOmyia.
are summoned TO show some excuse for their fur
Their existence. When Mr. Moss got through with
the calendar Of their crimes the cuex. anOpheles.
stogOmyla ct al. did not have a legal leg left to
stand In fact the little pests seemed TO have
deserted the neighborhood when the meeting was
adjourned.
The Grand Jury OF Terra Orbis, the in
dictment, do all mosquitoes. to wit: First
count, the defendant mosquitoes CuleX, not hav-
ing the fear of God before their eyes
numerous occasions from time whence the
memory of runneth to the contrary down
to the present time did upon the bodies Of numer-
Gus human beings commit the crime of murder
said crime being accomplished by the unlawful
feonious. malicious. wilfu and bloody laceration
OF said bodies with dangerous weapons to wit
lances or stngs affixed to the bodies of said de-
PENDANTS CuleX and by the injection into the
wounds made OF noxous secretions Of the said
Culex, containing myriads of microscopic worms
denomnated iiliarta, sanguinis hominis In said
wounds said iliaria did multiply in great numbers
poisoning said human beings and necessarily pro-
ducing In them the fatal disease known fliari-
asis and causing necessarily great pain and dis
fgurement in the swelling of the limbs and other
portions of the body attacked"
The average citizen means as much as Mr.. Moss
set forth in such detail when he hits his ear and
The second count charges the anophees with
murder in the second degree. but the Stogonia are
| hafO N1fNT q
in the first degree. and the fourth count charges
| all three families with all the remaining crimes OF
| the ancients and moderns.
Meanwhie the winter zephyrs whistled mock
Charles A Townsend exhibited some living spec
mems showing the Incubation Of mosquitoes ne
dren should be instructed on the subject, and sug
| gested that a postal card dealing with the mos
| quito Larvae and the mosquitoes could be sent t.
lowing officers were reelected: William J. Mathe
son chairman walter kfTT = RcR
| These facts are to he submitted to the advisory
| board of entomologists: There than fifty
| species of mosquitoes In the United States; differ
| ent species have well defined habits. and classified
| as domestic and migratory: most domestic mos
breed enter IN houses ny
breed in salt water marshes fly long distances anC
nant uster and take from one to three weeks t
| transform from eggs 10 winged MOSQUITOES: the com
mon house mosquitoes are the most abundant Of tht
! domestic mosquitoes: the maaral mosquitoes may
uster and are the dangerous OF the domestic
nosoiltos; they never travel far from their breed
| ine nisce mosquitoes do not breed In the grass
| but tail grass forms a faYorits harborng place
mosquito day old is full grown. and females three
| days old lay eggs ,
The second I0sttute NEG Under the sincs T
the art rooms: No l7t MontagIe,st;, Brooklyn, las
! FsIt New York State Entomoogtst lectured OF
| Universities Among New-York Mosquitoes
+bird session will be held on the rst floor OF tbs
Young Mems Christian Christian Association Building No
500 Fulton ST. HIooKiyn. at ESQ o'clock this after
speak on Public Health and Marine Hospita
| 5veienic laboratory at Washington, will SPEAK
! on '''Methoos OF Examination and Dissection o
| Mosquitoes for Parasites" Dr. Bramley will TAX,
| the place Of Health Commissioner Thomas Darling
| Do Toward Mosquito determination