CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION ix 



1 VALUE OF MOSQUITO CONTROL 3 



2 STRUCTURE, CLASSIFICATION, AND KEYS 8 



Names According to John B. Smith 12 

 Names According to Howard, Dyar and Knab 13 

 Names According to New Jersey Agricultural State Bul- 

 letin SJfS 13 

 Names According to Robert Matheson 14 

 Names According to This Book 14 

 A Key to New Jersey Species of Adult Female Mosquitoes 15 

 A Key to the Larvae of New Jersey Species of Mosquitoes 21 

 Eye and Hand-lens Key to the Adults of the More Com- 

 mon Species 27 

 Eye and Hand-lens Key to the Larvae of the More Com- 

 mon Species 28 

 THE NEW JERSEY MOSQUITO FAUNA 30 

 MOSQUITO BIOLOGY 33 

 Salt Marsh Breeding Group 33 

 A'edes cantator Coquillet 34 

 Aedes sollicitans Walker 40 

 Aedes taeniorhynchus Wiedman 52 

 Anopheles crucians Wiedman 57 

 Culex salinarius Coquillet 61 

 Household Group 64 

 Culex pipiens Linnaeus 64 

 Culex territans Walker 71 

 Fresh Water Swamp Group 73 

 Aedes vexans Meigen 73 

 Mansonia perturbans Walker 80 

 Malarial Group 92 

 Anopheles punctipennis Say 92 

 Anopheles quadrimacvlatus Wiedman 97 

 Anopheles walkeri Theobald 102 



