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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



head ; the mid frontal hairs are simple, the lateral branched. 

 Between the antennae are six plumose hairs, and between the 

 latter, nine more or less distinct pigmented spots, the largest in 



Fig. 3. 



Anopheles punctipennis. Say. 



Head, antenna, and labial plate (after Smith). 



the centre, the others arranged around it. Antenna of two 

 segments, the first short and immovable, the second elongate and 

 bears two rather long spines and two short ones and a 6-branched 

 hair; about one-third of the length from the base is a branched 



hair. Thorax rounded, bearing 

 twelve long plumose hairs and 

 some smaller ones and several 

 single hairs. Abdomen composed 

 of nine segments, the first two 

 rings have two long feathered hairs 

 on each side, the third has one, the 

 fourth and fifth have three or four 

 simple hairs united at their base 

 on each side, the sixth, seventh 

 and eighth with but one or two; 

 besides these there are two or 

 three short feathered hairs and 

 several short simple ones on each 

 side of the segments. Palmate hairs on segments three to 

 seven ; comb with about seven long teeth, and between each, 

 one to four, shorter ones. Pupa with no special features. 



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Tig. 4. 



Labial plate of A. punctipennis 

 (after Felt). 



