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MOSQUITO ERADICATION 



bears three pairs of legs on its lower surface and one pair of more or less 

 transparent wings on its upper surface. The abdomen is long and 

 narrow and composed of many plainly defined segments. It bears no 



on S 1 * 1 tarsal joint. 



Fig. 15. — Adult mosquito, (Aedes sollicitans Wlk.) with parts named. (After 

 John B. Smith, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations.) 



appendages other than certain ones connected with reproduction, and 

 apparently they are not necessary in elementary classification. 



"Each leg consists of a small coxa, a long femur, an equally long tibia 



