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

CULICINI 131
where favorable water conditions prevail. The eggs are laid
on the dry marshes and these hatch when flooded by tides or
rains. The adults are extremely troublesome and migrate long
distances, sometimes over forty miles. It is, one of the most
troublesome of mosquitoes in the coastal cities and summer
resorts. Large sums are being spent in New Jersey and else-
where in ditching, drainage and oiling in order to reduce the
abundance of this pest.
AEDES CANTATOR Coquillett
C&X cantutor Coquillett, Can. Ent. 35, 255. 1903.
Female. Length 5-6 mm.; wing 4-5 mm. Proboscis long, slender,
black. Occiput black, with yellowish-white scales, some brown ones
on the side; nape and occiput with numerous erect, forked, brown to
black scales; cheeks whitish scaled with a small black patch behind
the middle of the eye. Mesonotum with reddish-brown scales, lighter
at the sides and yellowish on the antescutellar space; a lighter stripe
of scales extending somewhat forward of the antescutellar space. Ab-
domen black; each segment with a rather broad basal band of white
scales; the last two segments nearly wholly white scaled; apices of
segments with a narrow margin of whitish scales; venter entirely yel-
lowish-white scaled. Wing scales brownish-black. Legs slender ;
femora dark brown scaled above, yellowish-white beneath, the knees
pale; tibiae mostly pale scaled beneath, dark brown above, Tarsi
black; each joint of hind tarsi with a narrow yellowish white basal
ring; joints of front and middle tarsi narrowly pale ringed at base
except last two of first and last one of second tarsus.
Male hypopygium. (Fig. 3, Pl. XII.) Side-pieces three times as
long as wide, slender; apical lobe prominent, rounded, with a few
small setae ; basal lobe small, rounded, bearing a stout marginal,
hooked spine and a group of small setae. Clasper long, medianly ex-
panded. Claspette with short, slender stem, setose, with a larger
seta on the inner basal margin; filament long, narrow, expanded at
the middle and ends in a sharp recurved point. Mesosome cylin-
drical, long, slightly constricted on the apical half; widely open on
the ventral side, closed along the dorsum and at the base. Lobes of
the ninth tergite prominent, long, and each bears 5 or 6 stout, short,
spines.
Larva. (Fig. 5, Pl. XXI.) Head longer than wide; antenna with
numerous small spines, the multiple tuft near the middle; upper and