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OCR: thousand individual eves or facets. In front of the eyes are the many jointed feathery antennae These serve as organs of hearing and by means of them the male is able to locate the female by her characteristic "song made by the vibration of her wings in flight. Below the antennae are the mouth parts which form the proboscis. each side of the proboscis are the long club-shaped maxillary palps that function organs of taste Malarial mosquitoes may be distinguished from all other mosquitoes by the presence in both sexes of palps equal in length to the proboscis