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Plumose hairs wanting on abdominal segments 

 four to six. Comb with long and short spines. 

 Forked, much branched hair each side the 

 pair of simple hairs at forward margin of head. 

 Hair nearest meson of dorsum of thorax in the 

 first row minute, one- to four-branched. Spines 

 of palmate tufts almost black at base, or uni- 

 formly dark brown 3 



a 



3 a 



Fig. 40. — Larval tuft characters: /, A nopheL s head and thoracic 

 row 1 ; a, shoulder tuft. 2, Culicid head, showing tufts as referred to 

 i,n key. j>, Shoulder tufts of: a, Anopheles maculipennis; b, A. 

 crucians; c, A. punctipennis. 4, Stellate tuft, j, Palmate tuft 

 (all greatly enlarged). 



