Descriptions of three new species of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, subgenus Finlaya, from New Guinea.

CONCLUSIONSThe description written by Tobias Biorck purports to be an account of certain customs and religious practices of the Minquas or Susquehannock Indians.His information was based on boyhood observation in America and information received from Andreas Hesselius and doubtless from his father Erick Biorck.While his remarks are inconclusive, nevertheless they represent the term ''kinticka"' or ''ka'ntika,'' meaning "'he is dancing."'In addition, the ceremony described could well resemble an earlier Iroquois ceremony of the pattern described by William N.