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contrast than any mosquito known to us, which is hightened by 

 the apparently clubbed femora, due to the bands of nearly erect 

 scales at their extremities and the basal yellowish white bands 

 of the tarsi. The wings are clothed with thin, easily abraded 



Fig. 10 Legs showing peculiar scaling and marliing : l Psoroptiora 

 ciliata, 2 Janthinosoma musica, both equally enlarged 



scales. This insect is really yellowish, though somewhat dark in 

 general appearance. 



The larva is equally remarkable in appearance and when full 

 grown is stout and half an inch or more in length. It is culicid 

 in type and presents some very interesting structural modifica 



