a handbook of the mosquitoes of north america - Systematic Catalog ...

128 MOSQUITOES OF SORTH AMERICA
C&x ~zacztlive~ztris Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 1, 7. 1846.
C&x curriei Coquillett, Can. Ent. 33, 259. 1901.
Czblex o~ondagensis Felt, Bull. 79, N.Y. State MU., 278. 1904.
Aedes paylei Dyar and Knab, Jour. N.Y. Ent. Sot. 14, 191.
1906.
Cu.lex Zatititattus Coquillett, Ent. News. 17, 109. 1906.
Grabhamia mediolineata. Ludlow, Can. Ent. 39, 129. 1907.
Aedes grahawzi Ludlow, Ins. Ins. Mens. 7, 154. 1920.
Aedes melaninzott Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 12, 126. 1924.
Fern&e. Length 6 mm.; wing 4-S mm. Proboscis long, black,
with a few white scales on basal half. Occiput brownish black,
densely clothed with narrow, curving, white scales, a brown patch on
each side; nape with many erect, narrow, pale, forked scales ; at the
sides a narrow band of these, black; cheeks with broad, flat white
scales. Mesonotum black, densely clothed with narrow, curved, scales;
a narrow median stripe, brown; sides, anterior margin, and antescu-
tellar space yellowish-white ; frequently there is a marginal brown
stripe from pronotal sclerite to near root of wing. (This stripe may
be almost lacking, but is usually indicated at anterior end). Abdo-
men black, with dense, broad, flat, white or yellowish-white scales,
with two large patches of black ones on each segment, the patches
becoming smaller posteriorly and absent on the last segment. (Fre-
quently the last two segments are entirely white scaled). The median
white scales often appear as a broad, longitudinal stripe. Venter
entirely white scaled. Wing scales black and white; on the costa ;
first vein, forks of the second and fourth veins, and the fifth vein
the black and white scales are more or less evenly intermingled; on
the auxiliary vein, second and fourth veins to their forks and the
sixth vein the scales are nearly all white; third vein almost entirely
black scaled. Legs long, slender; femora almost entirely pale scaled,
a few black scales above especially towards the apices; tibiae largely
white scaled; hind tarsi black with apical and basal rings white, the
first segment largely pale scaled beneath and the last segment largely
white; mid tarsi black with apical and basal white rings on the first
three segments ; front tarsi black with white bands at base and apex
of the first and second and base of third.
Male Jaypopygium. (Fig. 1, Pl. XII.) Side-pieces more than
twice as long as wide; apical lobes very short, rounded apically with
rather long setae; basal lobe prominent, constricted at base, broadened
apically, closely set with short setae, a stout spine at the v-oximal