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CERTAIN strains of mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) originally found on the Continent can lay fertile eggs without a previous meal of blood and have been termed ‘autogenous'. J. F. Marshall and J. Staley bring evidence that certain man-biting mosquitoes in Great Britain are females of such autogenous strains: they describe the morphological differences between autogenous mosquitoes from various countries and the original non-autogenous variety and suggest that the specific name C. domesticus be revived for the autogenous strain.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 136, 647 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136647b0
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