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CULICINI 137
ment with a basal white triangular patch on each side. Venter whit-
ish scaled. Wing scales brown. Legs black, except the femora which
are yellowish scaled on the under sides.
Lama. “Head rounded, bulging at the sides; head-hairs single,
anteantennal tuft multiple. Antennae moderate, slender, a small tuft
at the middle. Lateral comb of the eighth segment of many scales
in a triangular patch. Air-tube two and a half times as long as wide,
the pecten slightly exceeding the middle; followed by a hair-tuft.
Anal segment ringed by the plate, the ventral brush posterior; dor-
sal tuft a long hair and brush on each side. Anal gills long, tapered,
pointed.” (Dyar, 1928.)
This mosquito is distributed from Maine to Minnesota, south
to Virginia and Texas. Very little is known of its breeding
places or the habits of the adults.
AEDES HIRSUTERON Theobald
C&x hir.~zl~cro~z Theobald, Mon. Culic. 2, 98. 1901.
Cz&x ~stivalis Dyar, Jour. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 12, 245. 1904.
C&x pretans Grossbeck, Ent. News, 15, 332. 1904.
Aedes vimtipegelzsis Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., 7, 34. 1919.
Female. Length 5 mm.; wing 4 mm. Prosboscis slender, black.
Occiput black, with pale yellowish-white, curved scales and numerous
erect, forked, yellowish scales on the nape; cheeks with broad, flat,
whitish scales and a small patch of black ones. Mesonotum black,
a broad median band and posteriorly, sublateral stripes, golden brown;
anterior edge, sides and antescutellar space white to yellowish-white.
Abdomen black; each segment with a narrow basal white band, which
widens at the sides to triangular patches; venter entirely white to
yellowish-white scaled. Wing scales dark brown to black. Legs dark
brown to black; tarsi bronzy-brown to black scaled, a few pale scales
beneath on the first two segments forming a narrow line.
Male hypopygiunz. (Fig. 1, PI. XIII.) Side-pieces nearly three
times as long as wide; apical lobe long, broadly rounded at the apex
and bears short, retrorse setae: basal lobe sharply conical bearing
numerous short setae, a thin, broad spine near the base with a group
of shorter spines close beside it. Clasper short, expanded medianly.
Claspette with a stout stem, minutely setose, slightly constricted
before apex and bears a strong seta on inner side at point of con-
striction; filament short, slightly expanded at middle. Mesosome cy-