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MOSQUITOES 



drawing- liimself and wrote : " Whatever may be tlie 

 attitude of Anopheles, it is all in one line. Culex is angu- 

 lar, humpbacked." 



Note of Female. — The peculiar hum of the mosquito is 

 well known. There is a distinct diiierence between the 



Fig. 



15. — Anopheles maculipemns, male at left, female at right; en- 

 larged. (Author's illustration.) 



hum of A?iopheIes rnaculijyemiis and that of the com- 

 mon species of Culex, in that the former is noticeably 

 lower in tone. The note of Culex as it approaches the 

 ear is high in pitch ; that of Anopheles is certainly sev- 



