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182 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA
The adults do not bite, though I have offered them opportunities
time and again.
THEOBALDIA INORNATA Williston
C&x inomatus Williston, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Ornith. and
Mam., N. Amer. Fauna No. 7,253. 1893.
Culex ~aynipemzi.s Felt, Bull. 79. N.Y. State Mus., 278. 1904.
Female. Length 6 mm.; wing 6 mm. Proboscis slender, with
dark brown and white scales intermixed. Occiput black, with narrow,
curved, yellowish-white scales, the nape and sides with numerous
narrow, erect, forked black scales; cheeks and eye margin with flat,
white scales. Mesonotum brown, with two very short narrow anterior
bare areas, and a curving lateral posterior bare stripe each side of
the antescutellar space ; vestiture of narrow, curved, golden brown
scales intermixed with pale yellowish scales,-the pale scales most
abundant on anterior margin, over roots of wings, antescutellar space
and forming narrow longitudinal lines on the disk. Abdomen brown-
ish-black with broad basal bands of yellowish-white scales widening
laterally to form rather irregular lateral stripes; eighth segment en-
tirely pale scaled; venter pale yellow scaled. Wing scales dark brown,
a few white scales on anterior veins. Legs with dark brown and
whitish scales intermixed, the tarsi appearing nearly black.
Male hypopygizim. (Fig. 3, Pl. XVII ; Figs. 2 and 3, Pl. XXV.)
Side-pieces stout, conical, scarcely twice as long as broad; apical lobe
absent; basal lobe prominent, conical, with several stout spines on
the apex and small setae on the sides. Clasper stout, gradually
tapering to apex. Claspettes absent. Mesosome elongate, broadened
at base, open along ventral and dorsal sides. Laterally each side is
supported by a heavy chitinous elongate plate, which terminates in a
thin chitinous filament, furcate at apex. Lobes of the ninth tergite
prominent, approximate, dome-like structures, each crowned with
numerous short, stout spines.
Larva. (Fig. 6, Pl. XXI.) Length 10 mm. Head wider than
long; antenna small, sparsely spined; tuft small, situated at the mid-
dle; upper and lower dorsal head hairs large and multiple ; between the
lower head hairs and in front of the dorsal head hairs are a pair of
small multiple hairs ; anteantennal hair tuft multiple. Abdominal
lateral hairs multiple on the first and second segment, double on the
third to sixth, single on the seventh; subdorsal tufts prominent on
the third to seventh segments. Subventral tufts long and prominent.