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a fairly extensive search was made in the town of Mandaos, its native suburbs, and the sparsely inhabited forest surrounding it, for the breeding-places of various mosquitoes.During this examination Stegomyia calopus larvae were never found, except in domestic waters in the immediate vicinity of a human habitation.Young (1921), writing from Mandos, has drawn attention to the same point ; Howard, Dyar and Knab (1912) state: 'The larvae are found practically exclusively in artificial receptacles about human habitations.
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