THE MICROSCOPE. 



SKPTKNIBER, 1895. 



Number 33. 



New Series. 



Objects Seen Under the Microscope. 



By chrysanthemum. 

 XXVI. — THE MOSQUITO. 



This little insect, which is so troublesome on a sum- 

 mer's evening, is very beautiful when seen under the 

 microscope. It should be studied with both low and 

 high powers, also with reflected and transmitted light. 



It belongs to the class Diptera, family Culicidse. It 

 has a long slender abdomen, narrow wings; a long, slen- 



der, but firm labium or proboscis ; and, in the male, a 

 plumed antennsB. 



There are several insects that resemble the mosquito 

 which belong to the midges; one of these comes in the 

 early spring. It has a beautiful plumed antenna, but it 

 can easily be distinguished from the male mosquito by 

 examining the antennsB. In the true mosquito the an- 

 tenna has fourteen joints and these joints are surrounded 

 by a whorl of long hairs (fig. 1), while in the midge the 



