AND PUPAL STAGES OF A NEW MOSQUITO. 



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side towards the apex. Claspettes (liavpagoue.s) large, rather 

 more than half the length of the side-pieces, each with a conspi- 

 cuous, attenuated, nieniinanous foot-like appendage, ^dceagus 

 (unci) separate distally, without serrations or teeth. 



Text-fi£'ure 1. 



Male hjrpopj'gium of OcMerotatus latirei, sp. n. X 120. 

 (Hairs of portion of right side-piece omitted.) 



Larva (text-fig. 2). — Relatively stout, about 7 mm. in length. 

 Head rounded, slightly narrowed before the eyes; antennae cylin- 

 drical, sparsely covered with minute spines and beaxing four or 

 five longer spines at the apex; antennal tuft small, centrally 

 situated, composed of four simple hairs arising from a common 

 stem. Dorsal hairs not leathered, compound, the anterior pair 

 each composed of four hairs, the small median of four and the 

 posterior of five or six : ante-antennal tuft formed of four to six 

 hairs. Mental plate ti^iangular in shnpe, armed with from 12-14 

 teeth on each side ; the terminal tooth longer and broader than 

 the rest, the apical lateral teeth elongate and somewhat ci'owded 



