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Mosquito Notes.—II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2009
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Head with the integument rather light yellowish, especially when viewed from in front. Erect scales mostly brown, a small area of white ones in the middle towards the front, and in front of these a few long, narrow recumbent scales, not forming a definite frontal tuft. Many light brown bristles between the eyes; border bristles dark. Antennae with the basal joint yellow; in female with a few small scales on the second joint; male plumes light brown. Female palpi very slightly longer than the proboscis, thin, with appressed scales; narrow whitish rings at the tips of the first three joints, just extending on to the bases of the succeeding joints; tip of last joint dark. Second joint slightly longer than the first, slightly shorter than the third and fourth together; fourth joint less than half as long as the third. [Male palpi missing.\ Proboscis dark, except for the labella.
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page 74 note * Since writing this I learn that Mr. D. Miller, Government Entomologist in New Zealand, has an account of the life history of this insect in course of publication. Larvae and bupae of the species have been received from Mr. G. V. Hudson; they show some resemblances to Armigeres.
page 78 note * [There does not appear to be any reasonable ground for proposing this new name. Schrank’s species was transferred to Theobaldia long before Leucomyia annulata was described, and there can be no possibility of confusion between them.—Ed.\
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