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Psorophora ciliata Abr. 

 Giant mosquito 



PI. 2, 15, 30, 41, flg. 1, 2 ; 1 ; 1 ; 1 respectively 



This species is the giant of its family and may be recognized 

 by its extremely large size and the peculiar legs, which latter 



Fig. 9 Female enlarged, Psorophora ciliata. (After Howard. U. S. Dep"t 

 Agric. Div. Elit. Bui. 25, n. s. 1900) 



are thickly clothed with nearly or quite erect scales [fig. 10]. 

 Under a lens this giant mosquito is a beautiful object with its 

 median band of golden yellow scales on the prothorax, flanked 

 with a smooth, jet black area and more laterally with a some- 

 what irregular patch of whitish scales, It presents a greatei' 



