CONTENTS 



Foreword 1 



Bionomics and Relation to Disease 2 



Life History 2 



Medical Importance 4 



Technique 6 



Collecting Adults 6 



Transporting, Mounting and Storing Adult Specimens 13 



Preparing Male Termmalia for Study 15 



Preparing Cibarial Armature for Study 16 



Dissection for Malaria Parasites 16 



Collecting Mosquito Eggs 18 



Collecting Larvae 18 



Rearing, Storing and Mounting Larvae 20 



Mosquito Identification 23 



Characters Used in Identification 23 



Adult Characters 23 



Pupal Characters 37 



Larval Characters 39 



Culicine Larvae 41 



Anopheline Larvae 44 



Egg Characters 47 



Family Culicidae 48 



Subfamily Culicmae 49 



Tribe Anophelini 50 



Genus Anopheles Meigen 50 



Anopheles atropos Dyar and Knab 52 



Anopheles barberi Coquillelt 55 



Anopheles crucians hradle\)i King 58 



Anopheles crucians crucians Wiedemann 60 



Anopheles crucians georgianus King 64 



Anopheles pseudopunctipennis pseudopunctipennis Theo- 

 bald 66 



A nophel'^s punctipennis (Say) 69 



Anopheles quadrimaculalus Say - 73 



Anopheles n>all(eri TTieobald 76 



Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann 80 



Tribe Megarhinini 83 



Genus Megarhinus Robineau-Desvoidy 83 



Megarhinus rulilus Coquillett 84 



Megarhinus seplenlrionalis Dyar and Knab 84 



Tribe Culicini 8o 



Genus IVyeomyia Theobald 89 



Wyeomyia mitchellii (TTieobald) 90 



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