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  REMARKABLE 
  MOSQUITO. 
  

  

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  lies 
  along 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  shaft, 
  the 
  two 
  sides 
  of 
  which 
  lie 
  in 
  a 
  V-shaped 
  position, 
  

   forming 
  a 
  partial 
  tube 
  with 
  the 
  rod 
  running 
  along 
  the 
  fork 
  of 
  the 
  fold. 
  Antennae 
  

  

  Fig. 
  9. 
  Apex 
  of 
  maxilla 
  of 
  9- 
  

  

  14-jointed, 
  with 
  no 
  spines 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  <$ 
  but 
  each 
  joint 
  with 
  a 
  whorl 
  of 
  sparsely 
  set, 
  

   bristle-like 
  hairs 
  longer 
  on 
  proximal 
  joints. 
  Front 
  legs 
  and 
  claws 
  normal. 
  Colour 
  

   as 
  in 
  the 
  $, 
  but 
  the 
  scales 
  golden 
  at 
  times, 
  and 
  the 
  body 
  a 
  deep 
  purplish-blue 
  in 
  some 
  

  

  Fig. 
  10. 
  Apex 
  of 
  abdomen 
  of 
  $ 
  as 
  it 
  appears 
  in 
  

   a 
  dried 
  specimen. 
  

  

  lights. 
  Apical 
  sternites 
  of 
  abdomen 
  swollen 
  and 
  descending 
  in 
  dried 
  specimens 
  

   (fig. 
  10), 
  but 
  normal 
  and 
  evenly 
  rounded 
  with 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  abdominal 
  sternites 
  

   in 
  the 
  living 
  insect. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  $ 
  and 
  ?, 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Larva. 
  

  

  Larva 
  blackish 
  brown 
  or 
  sometimes 
  greenish 
  in 
  colour, 
  the 
  segments 
  well 
  defined. 
  

   Siphon 
  short, 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  branched 
  hair-tufts 
  ventrally 
  a 
  

   little 
  above 
  the 
  middle 
  (fig. 
  11) 
  ; 
  siphonal 
  pecten 
  consisting 
  of 
  three 
  short 
  bristles 
  

  

  Fig. 
  11. 
  Siphon 
  and 
  apical 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  of 
  larva 
  of 
  Opifex 
  fuscus. 
  

  

  