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CULEX. Mosquito.

1. C. (Megarhina) ferox. ⅜ in.: head brown. with green gold shine; chest chestunt; body, legs and trunk steel blue, golden below.

2. C. ciliatus. 5/16 in.; brown; chest yellow, black striped: legs yellow, with black and white bands.

3. C. fasciatus. 3/16 in.: brown: feet with white bands: wings transparent, brown veins.

4. C. taintorhynchus. 3/16 in.: brown; a white band across middle of trunk: joints of feet white.

5. C. pungens. 3/16 in.; reddish brown, body brown. with yellow edges on the rings.

6. C. tainiatus. ⅛ in.; brown; chest with three dark stripes; feeler of male with four, of female with two white bands: body brown, edges of ring yellowish, and a white spot: legs dark brown: two white bands on fore feet, and five on hind feet.

7. C. triseriatus. 3/16 in.: brown: chest blackish above, sides white, hairy, body with three rows of triangular white spots on each ring: front edge of wing brown.

8. C. (Psorophora) boscii. ¼ in, pale yellow, brownish legs and hairy veins, two scales on the fore part of chest.

ANOPHELES. Fork gnat.

1. A. crucians. 3/16 in; brownish; chest with three dark lines, body gray, hairy: veins of wing brown; wing spotted.

2. A. ferruginosus. 3/16 in.; rusty brown: hody blackish brown, with yellowish hair: no marks on chest or wings except veins.

3. A. quadrimaculatus. 5/16 in.: gray, a brown stripe on each side of chest. two larger and two small brown spots on each wing.

CORETHRA. Bushy gnat.

1. C. punctipennis. ¼ in.; whitish, with brown dotted wings and legs; chest with three yellowish brown stripes.

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