Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Handbook of the Gnats or Mosquitoes: Giving the Anatomy and Life History of the Culicidae Together With Description of All Species Noticed Up to the Present Date
There are some hundreds of drawings in the new plates and figures which, with a few exceptions, have been drawn by the writer himself from camera lucida outlines, and it is needless to say that all these changes have taken much time, but were inevitable, if the new issue was not to be rendered almost immediately obsolete by the appear ance of the Monograph.
To facilitate comparison of neighbouring species, the figures illustrating them have been, as far as possible, grouped into plates, instead of interspersing them in the text.
As to the question of which of the older names are mere redescriptions of one and the same species - the synonymy of the group - I have followed implicitly the new Monograph, and it must be understood that, in relegating any given name to this category, I merely reproduce, and desire to imply no personal opinion as to the justness or otherwise of the conclusions involved.
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