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GNATS OR MOSQUITOES 



Midges and mosquitoes, distinction 

 between, 3, 5, 500 ; link between, 256. 



Mochl(ynijx , eggs, 131 ; larva, 46, 58, 

 131 ; number, 239 ; pupa, GO, 131 ; 

 wing, 508. 



Moloplielcs, 3. 



Monograph on Ctilicidce, by Theobald, 

 240. 



Moram, Limestone, 177. 



Mosquito, anatomy of, chap, vi., on, 

 76 ; and blood parasites, 37, 116 ; 

 and puddles, 169, 170 ; and yellow 

 fever, 126 ; bites, prevention of, 216, 

 225 ; curtains, 229, 230 ; derivation 

 of word, 4 ; destruction of, 214, 221 ; 

 eggs (illust. ), 123; enemies of, 149; 

 favourite haunts of, 20 ; in England, 

 4; leg of (illust.), 17; mouth of 

 (illust.), 83 ; never fly high, 233 ; pre- 

 valence of, chap, vii., on, 112, chap, 

 viii., on, 152 ; -proof houses, 226, 227, 

 illust., 227 ; -proof room, portable, 

 229 ; remedies, 234. 



Mosquitoes and water, 20, 170 ; how 

 captured, 21 ; how photographed 

 (illust.), 31 



Moulting of larva, 131. 



Mounting entire insects, 24, illust., 

 26, 27. 



Mouth, framework of, 96 ; nomencla- 

 ture of, 10 ; of dipterous adult insect 

 81, compared, 256 ; of Corethrina, 

 500 ; of imago, 10, 81 ; of larva, 47, 

 129 ; of mosquito, 83, 95 ; of pupa, 

 67; of sand-lly (illust.), 82. 



Movements of larvae, 129 ; of pupaj, 

 74, 129. 



Mucidus, eggs, 124, 261 ; head scales, 

 259 ; larva 42 ; leg, 78 ; proboscis, 

 333; wing, 16 ; wing scales, 261. 



Municipal water supplies, effect of, 

 167. 



Muscles, 92. 



N. 



Names, scientific, 17. 



Neck, 87, 98. 



Ncviatocera,2,Z ; anomalous, characters 



of, 2 ; true, characters of, 2 ; true, 



families of, 2. 

 Nervous system of imago, 72, 106, il- 



lust., 106; of larva, 46, 52; of pupa, 

 72. 



Net for catching mosquitoes, 22. 

 New Zealand, Culicidce of, 251. 

 North American Culicidce, list of, 244. 

 Norway mosquitoes, 425. 

 Note, musical, of mosquitoes, SO, 146, 



284, 285. 

 Number of members of the family and 



the genera, 240. 

 Nymph, see Pupa. 



O. 

 Occiput, 9. 



Oceanic Islauds, Culicidce of, 251. 

 Ocelli, 9, Gl, 63. 



CEsophagus of larvae, 47 ; of imago, 9H. 

 Olfactory organs of larv», 44. 

 «' On the Prowl," by E. H. A., 19. 

 Opium, as a malarial prophylactic, 196. 

 Orbit, 10. 

 Ortliorrhapha, 1. 

 Ovaries, 91, 107. 

 Ovipositor, 13, 91, 107. 



Pacca built houses, 228. 



Pack specimens, how to, 27, 28. 



Pairing of Culicidce, 127. 



Palpi, 11, 86, 57 ; length of, 262 ; male, 



basis of classification, 255 ; of 



Anopheles, 139. 

 Paiwplites, eggs, 124, 126, 261 ; wing 



scales, 260. 

 Paraffin, oil as a larvicidc, 219, 224 ; 



wax for embedding, 35. 

 Parasite on larva, 151, illust., 150. 

 Parasites, blood, and mosquitoes, 37, 



116,148; and temperature, 158; in 



mosquitoes, how to diminish, 213 ; 



in salivary glands, 36, 101. 

 Parasitism, Jaw of, 155. 

 Pastilles, sulphur, for fumigating, 221. 

 Paving of towns as an anti-malarial 



measure, 205 

 Peristomium, 9. 

 Personal hj'giene, 225. 

 Pharyngeal bulb (illust.), 97. 

 Pharynx, 11, 96, 98. 

 Phlehotomus, 6, illust., 5; mouth 



(illust.), 82. 



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