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figure 9. Figure 7, by the bye, was drawn from a cast skin, 

 and the tube, from pressure, is made to appear broader in pro- 

 portion than is natural. The anal siphon is three and one-half 

 times as long as the width at base, and does not taper much 

 toward the apex. The two rows of spines contain each from 

 14 to 20 small, slender, pointed processes, the inner edge of 

 which is shortly toothed, as shown at figure 8. 



The anal gills are only a little longer than the ninth seg- 

 ment, and are not prominent nor supplied with obvious tra- 

 cheae. Evidently this is a species that depends entirely upon 

 getting its air supply through the surface film of the water 

 in which it lives. 



Anopheles crucians Wied. 



This is a little the smallest of the three species that occur 

 in New Jersey and, in a way, is intermediate between them. 

 The wings are more spotted than in maculipennis, less so than 

 in punctipennis ; the last vein is white, marked with three 

 black spots. The palpi are white marked at the base of 

 the joints. 



A specimen was bred by Dr. H. P. Johnson in 1902, from a 

 mixed lot of pupae, probably received from Delair, N. J. Two 

 specimens were taken in the same year, at Lahaway, by Mr. 

 J. Turner Brakeley. Several specimens came in material 

 received from Mr. W. P. Seal, at Delair. 



In 1903 a very fresh-looking specimen was taken by Mr. 

 Grossbeck, July 3Oth, at Port Reading, and this is the north- 

 ernmost point in New Jersey where the species has occurred. 



Among the mosquitoes that came to the porches at Cape 

 May, soon after sunrise in midsummer, I detected this species, 

 and instructed Mr. Henry L,. Viereck to locate the breeding- 

 places and work out the life-history. He finally located the 

 breeding-areas in the Cape Marsh, and examples of the larvae 

 were sent in, August 3d, September 5th and September 28th. 

 The records show their occurrence almost continuously between 

 these dates, and the adults also were recorded almost daily. 

 The females began their attack before sundown, and were 

 again active for some little time after sunrise. During the 

 latter part of the season the period of activity lengthened, 



