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intermediate ones short [pl.3o, fig.2], and there are six bristles 

 in each of the two longitudinal rows on the ventral surface. 

 The three blood gills at caudal end are unbranched. 



Pupa. The thoracic respiratory lilaments each consist of a 

 single main trunk, from which arise eight branches, each of 

 which divides into two, thus making 16 twigs in all [pl.35, fig.l]. 

 Near the basal margin of the last few abdominal segments, are 

 a few caudad projecting dorsal hooks, and on the tip of the last 

 segment is a pair of blunt spines. The pupal case is of the 

 wall pocket type, from which the respiratory filaments of the 

 pupa project. Judging from the number of respiratory fila- 

 ments of the pupa, the species described by Osten Sacken in 

 American E)ito)iio]o<jist. volume 2, seems to belong here. 



Simulium sp. C. H. Townsend 



Am. Eut. Soc. Trans. April 1893. 15:4.5 



The larva and pupa, of a species which appears to differ from 

 S. var. piscicidium, are described by Townsend [loc. cit.], 

 the only species with wiiich it might be confused. Specific 

 characteristics are as follows: 



On the dorsal surface of the head are several rows and groups 

 of nearly concolorous markings . . . Antennae pale, nearly as 

 long as one half anterior width of head, three jointed, first joint 

 very elongate, and narrow^, not swollen, slightly curved, with a 

 somewhat faint transverse suture on basal two fifths, cylindric 

 below suture, beyond the suture very slightly and somewhat 

 irregularly narrowing to tip; second joint narrower than tip of 

 the first, straight and of equal width excejrt slightly widened at 

 base, a little more than one third as long as first joint, and with 

 two small, triangular budlike processes, one on each side at the 

 base, springing from the junction of the two joints and approxi- 

 mated to the second joint; third joint extremely small, short, 

 minute, triangular, but little longer than wide, about the same 

 shape as the minute processes at base of second joint. Fans 

 consisting of about 60 scythe shaped rays each, microscopically 

 thinly hairy . . . Mandibles furnished with teeth on inner side 

 at apex ; four large teeth on apex, nine or 10 teeth behind these, 

 gradually decreasing in size, except that the second of these is 

 larger than the first, a large tooth still behind these; with a 

 small one directly beside it . . . Thoracic prolog with at least 

 30 obliquely longitudinal rows of hooks, and probably more; at 

 base of these there is a marginul transverse row of bristles on 

 side toward body (the leg being flexed forward) extending 

 around laterally, but wanting on outer surface . . . Blood gills 

 a soft, retractile, primarily three branched organ just anterior 



