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MOSQUITO NOTES.—No. 5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. S. Ludlow
Affiliation:
Laboratory of the Office of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.

Extract

From the Island of Mindanao, P.I., comes a very pretty mosquito.

Toxorhynchites argenteotarsis, n. sp.—♀. Head densely covered with very dark brown flat scales, with bronze-blue iridescence, a light blue-white band around the eyes, and a few brown bristles; antennæ dark brown, the basal joint densely covered with flat white scales; palpi with very dary brown, almost black, scales, bronze-blue iridescence, the penulimate and antipenultimate joints with narrow violet apical bands; proboscis very dark, practically black, with bright bronze-blue irirdescence; eyes black, clypeus black.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1906

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