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696 by the mosquito (Fülleborn, Dirofilaria immitis; Bahr, Filaria bancrofti) (Fig. 105); they do not enter through the mosquito-made wound, as formerly conjectured, but near it. Apparently the filariæ in some instances can discriminate between flesh and vegetable, for in mosquitoes fed on bananas the parasites



had not been deceived into passing into so inhospitable a medium: up to forty days after the insect was