INSECT TRANSFORMATION 



result is that the newly-emerged gnat finds itself on the surface 

 of the water, the empty pupal husk which floats often serving 

 it as a raft-like support on which it can rest and dry its wings. 



B 



FIG. 103. 



A Egg of Anopheles. X 40. B, Larva, dorsal view (b, brush I; 

 r ' feeler d, maxillary palp ; e, thorax ; /, spiracle ; g, stellate 

 hairs h, abdominal terga ; i, anal papillae). x 10. C, a stellate hair, 

 X 70. D, pupa (/, spiracle), x 10. After Nuttall and Shipley, 

 Journ. Hy%. I. 



Less abundant in these countries than the Culicine gnats 

 are the Anophelines 1 members of the same family but 

 distinguished by the very elongate maxillary palps of the 



1 G. H. F. Nuttall and A. E. Shipley : " The Structure and Biology of 

 Anopheles". Journ. Hygiene., Vol. I. 1901. 



