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Fig. lxxv. Adult of pitcher plant mosquito. Wyeomyia smithii Coq. (After 

 John B. Smith.) 1, female adult; 2, palpus of same; 3, palpus of male; 4, 

 anterior, 5, middle and 6, posterior claws of male (all enlarged). 



white scales which join brown in well defined line at sides; sometimes 

 white extends very slightly up base of segments, but never visible from 

 above. 



HABITS OF THE ADULT 



The most characteristic habit of the adult is its inability or disincli- 

 nation to bite and suck blood — of human beings at least. A collector 

 has been in the bogs and swamps where there must have been hundreds 

 of them and never a one has come to disturb him. He has even seen them 



