. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. n,one pair of insects producing millions of their kind. The Special Characteristics of the Anopheles.—Length of palpi and pro-boscis about equal, the former four-jointed in the female and three-jointedin the male. The straight filamentous palpi are held almost parallel with theproboscis, the wings are often spotted, the abdomen is pilose with no scales, thelegs are long, ending in dentate claws, and the nucha has posterior scalycornua. Color in Relation to the Mosquito.—Nuttall has reported some interest-ing observations in regard to the co
. Medical diagnosis for the student and practitioner. n,one pair of insects producing millions of their kind. The Special Characteristics of the Anopheles.—Length of palpi and pro-boscis about equal, the former four-jointed in the female and three-jointedin the male. The straight filamentous palpi are held almost parallel with theproboscis, the wings are often spotted, the abdomen is pilose with no scales, thelegs are long, ending in dentate claws, and the nucha has posterior scalycornua. Color in Relation to the Mosquito.—Nuttall has reported some interest-ing observations in regard to the color preferences of mosquitoes. He foundthat of the various colors ranging from white to black, the former was theleast, the latter the most attractive. The observations are of distinct valuein relation to the proper colors for clothing for dwellers in mosquito-infested communities. MALARIA I039 Classification of the Organism.—As will be seen from the plates illustrat-ing the cycle of development in the human body, the malarial organism is ^ \?.
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