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  REMARKABLE 
  MOSQUITO. 
  

  

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  clavate 
  yellow 
  structure 
  clothed 
  with 
  hairs 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  darker 
  central 
  spot 
  at 
  its 
  apex 
  

   {fig. 
  H). 
  

  

  Vestiture 
  also 
  shown 
  in 
  figure. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  14. 
  Head 
  of 
  larva, 
  dorsal 
  aspect. 
  

  

  Mandibles 
  (fig. 
  15) 
  roughly 
  rectangular, 
  the 
  articular 
  surface 
  broad, 
  the 
  sides 
  

   converging 
  and 
  triangular 
  in 
  transverse 
  median 
  section 
  : 
  a 
  single 
  elongate 
  spine 
  

   on 
  angle 
  of 
  outer 
  ridge 
  ; 
  a 
  large 
  claw-like 
  and 
  toothed 
  appendage 
  attached 
  near 
  the 
  

  

  Fig. 
  15. 
  Mandible 
  of 
  larva. 
  

  

  outer 
  molar 
  angle, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  claw 
  arise 
  several 
  bristle-like 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   this 
  appendage 
  is 
  apparently 
  freely 
  movable 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  molar 
  angle 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  short 
  

   toothed* 
  appendage, 
  while 
  at 
  the 
  inner 
  angle 
  is 
  a 
  bifid 
  hairy 
  projection. 
  Along 
  one 
  

  

  * 
  These 
  appendages, 
  in 
  variable 
  form, 
  are 
  present 
  on 
  the 
  mandibles 
  of 
  other 
  New 
  Zealand 
  

   mosquito 
  larvae. 
  They 
  resemble 
  to 
  a 
  great 
  extent 
  the 
  appendages 
  on 
  the 
  mandible 
  of 
  Campodea 
  

   as 
  figured 
  by 
  Packard 
  in 
  his 
  Text-book 
  of 
  Entomology, 
  p. 
  60, 
  fig. 
  48 
  ; 
  the 
  movable 
  claw 
  resembling 
  

   his 
  prostheca, 
  or 
  lacinia, 
  and 
  the 
  others 
  his 
  galea. 
  In 
  some 
  other 
  species 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  elongate 
  

   spines 
  on 
  the 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  ridge 
  agreeing 
  with 
  the 
  observations 
  of 
  other 
  authors 
  

  

  