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to them as is the yellow fever mosquito, being often found both 

 as a larva and as an adult at a distance from dwellings. Its 

 legs are not distinctly banded, and it lacks silvery markings. It 

 is not as persistent a biter as the other, and cannot be said to 

 be a very serious pest in most Kentucky households. Yet it is 

 charged with carrying filariasis and some other diseases, and 

 should be kept suppressed wherever practicable. 



Two mosquitoes belonging to the genus Anopheles are to 

 be found in dwellings in Kentucky, both to be recognized by 

 their habit of holding the body at an angle with the surface on 



FIG. 9. Eggs of malaria mosquito (A. punctipennis) . Original 



which they rest. The commonest one is readily recognized b> 

 its mottled wings, these organs being conspicuously marked with 

 black and brown. It is a rather large insect, tho it is not 

 known to convey malaria. It passes the winter as an adult in 

 caves and cellars. 



The mosquito (Anopheles maculipennis)* really carrying 

 malaria is also not rare as a visitor to households. It is some- 

 what smaller than A. punctipennis, and is not conspicuously 

 marked, but can generally be recognized among our species by 

 the position which the adult assumes when at rest. Its young 

 are found in spring-fed ponds and in recesses along the shores 



* Theobald, the British writer on mosquitoes, has been followed in usint 

 this name, and with the knowledge that Howard and Dyar have recently 

 questioned its validity ns applied to our sppnies, eufirsrestinar instead th 

 name AnopheUt guttulatu* 



