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The Brown Salt-Marsh Mosquito 

 (Aedes cantator Coq.j 

 Recognition Marks 

 This species is much harder to characterize than the two preced- 

 ing, but has the following fairly distinct characters: It is a large 

 (H inch or more long), robust mosquito of a general brown color; 

 the thorax is covered with distinct spiny hair ; the tarsi show a white 



Fig. 8. Adult of the Small Salt-Marsh Mosquito. (After John B. Smith). 



I adult female ; 2. anterior claws ; 3. anterior ; 4. median and 



5, posterior claws of male (all much enlarged). 



band at the base of each joint, but the bands are not well marked 

 and merge gradually into the ground color; each abdominal seg- 

 ment shows a whitish band at its base, but the bands are rather in- 

 delinite and not constricted at the center. This species can be dis- 

 tinguished from the brown woods mosquito {A. stimulans) only by 

 a careful comparison such as outlined on page 23. 



The larva is dirty gray in color and has a breathing tube which is 

 from 2>4 to 3>4 times as long as broad. Its antennae are not pendant 

 and arise from the sides of the anterior part of the head. It has 4 



