. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). JOHN FREDERICK MARSH ALl. AND THE BRITISH MOSQUITOES 27 No. 1. How TO Recognise a Mosquito. The body of » MOSQUITO (« ii a "; or â i»o »inBe<i instcO. .s composed of 3 pirn L which has two " compound ~ EVILS (with numerous "corneal facets' I, and certain appendages shrathed I THE THORAX. to which are attached three pairs of LEGS, a pair of WINGS with scaled veu a pair of proji called -HALTERESi (vestigial hind wings)' which is composed of (eight only visible) segi The abdomens Culicine mosqu
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). JOHN FREDERICK MARSH ALl. AND THE BRITISH MOSQUITOES 27 No. 1. How TO Recognise a Mosquito. The body of » MOSQUITO (« ii a "; or â i»o »inBe<i instcO. .s composed of 3 pirn L which has two " compound ~ EVILS (with numerous "corneal facets' I, and certain appendages shrathed I THE THORAX. to which are attached three pairs of LEGS, a pair of WINGS with scaled veu a pair of proji called -HALTERESi (vestigial hind wings)' which is composed of (eight only visible) segi The abdomens Culicine mosquitoes are marked wiih light transverse bands, while those of our Anopheline mosquitoes are uniformly dark The head appendages are (I) bundle of pointed instruments the PROBOSCIS. (?)apairofMA,'(ILLARY P^LPS and (3)apairof(I4 jointed) ITENNAE The palps" le of female »re ilttdir, lales. Am*/. H Mosquitoes are to be met tvith all over Ihe wnrld. the total number of species at present known h 5 exceeding IflDlt. With a few unimportant "Treptions thev are separable into two great tlivisions t, ; or 'Mnbes," the CVUCJSE^ and the ASOPHFLISES, something like three-quarters of [be » > mosquitoes of the world belonging to [he former tribe In t'ireat Bntain, ^'2 species of C['£S n o and 3 species of ASOPHELt\ES have up to now been discovered. The palps of all â - female mosquitoes are 'lender or threadlikeâthose of a Cl'LKlSE mosquito (above illustraled) being I cry tfrorl, and tho^e of 3n ASOPHELISE mosquito about as long .li Iht proboicn. Fig. 22 A ptfstcard. Afi example t>f educational literature produced by the Institute the removal and introduction of larvae into the jar. The incubator was marketed by A. Gallenkamp & Co. Limited, model A retailing for and model B for in the late 1920s (Fig. 27). The 'Moscon' Macrograph was designed to permit an enlarged image of an object placed beneath a microscope to be proje
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