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

CULICINI
dorsum and at the base, only slightly chitinized. Lobes of the ninth
tergite short, each bearing four or five short spines.
Larva. “Head rounded, slightly bulging on the sides; antennae
moderate, spined, a tuft near the middle. Head-hairs single, an-
teantennal tuft multiple. Lateral comb of the eighth segment of
about twenty scales in a small triangular patch, single scales with the
terminal spinules alike. Air-tube less than twice as long as wide, the
pecten reaching the middle, followed by a hair-tuft. Anal segment
wider than long, ringed by the plate; ventral brush posterior. Dor-
sal tuft a hair and brush on each side; lateral hair single, small. Anal
gills very short.” (Dyar).
This species is distributed along the coastal areas of America
extending northward to Connecticut on the east and Santa
Barbara on the west. It breeds typically in coastal marshes and
is never found breeding far from such localities, though at
times it breeds in fresh water pools.
AEDES SQUAMIGER COQUILLETT
C&n- sqzlakger Cocluillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 25, 85.
1902.
Grabhamia demYedmanii Ludlow, Can. Ent. 36, 234. 1904.
Female. Proboscis slender, black, with a mixture of pale scales
near the middle. Occiput black, with grayish scales medianly, brown
at sides; the cheeks white scaled. Mesonotum black, the middle with
pale brown scales, bordered by grayish scales; two indistinct median
stripes of pale scales. Abdomen black, with broad, basal segmental
bands of yellowish-white scales, triangularly expanded in the middle;
venter white scaled. Femora and tibiae black and white scaled; tarsi
with first segment spotted with white scales, the rest black with basal
white rings, except last two segments of fore and last joint of mid-
tarsi black. Wing scales black and white, evenly intermingled.
Male hypopygiunz. Side-piece about three times as long as wide;
apical lobe prominent with a few setae; basal lobe conical, setose, a
group of long hairs on dorsal margin, one a little stouter and spine-
like. Clasper shorter than side-piece. Claspette stem short, slender;
filament as long as stem, angularly produced at middle to form a small
tooth. Lobes of ninth tergite with long spines.
Larva. Head longer than wide ; antenna sparsely spined; tuft at
middle; upper and lower head-hairs double ; anteantennal tuft mul-
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