152 MOSQUITOES 



larvae. T\\e\ are out of sight and practically out of reach 

 of the fish. 



The eggs of this interesting mosquito are yet to be 

 found, and it will be most interesting to see in what re- 

 spects they differ from the eggs of Culex and Anopheles. 



Genus Megarhinus Desvoidy. 



Another of the large mosquitoes which seem to be col- 

 lectively known in the South as gallinippers (probably 

 also some of the harmless crane-flies are so dubbed) 

 belong to this genus. In fact there are two of them 

 known in North America, namely Megarhinus lueineY' 

 rhoidalis F. (Mexico and Cuba), and M. portoricensis 

 Boeder (Mississippi). These mosquitoes also should be 

 investigated by Southern observers in regard to their 

 possible connection with malaria, or some other blood 

 disease. They are readily distinguished from other mos- 

 quitoes by the curved beak. The palpi in the male 

 are as long as the proboscis, but are short in the female. 

 The colors are bluish or greenish. 



Nothing is known of the life history of the mosquitoes 

 of the genus Megarhinus, and some Southern observer has 

 an admirable chance to add to the sum total of human 

 knowledge by a series of careful observations on one of 

 these forms. 



