478 MOSQUITOES OF ^TOETH AMERICA 



CULISETA INCIDENS (Thomson) Felt. 



Culex incidens Thomson, Kongl. Sven. Freg. Eugenies Resa, vi, Dipt, 443, 1868. 



Culex incidens Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 329, 1900. 



Culex nigripes Theobald (in part, not Zetterstedt), Mon. Culic, ii, 93, 1901. 



Culex nigripes Giles (in part, not Zetterstedt), Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 444, 1902. 



Culex particeps Adams, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., ser. 2, ii, 26, 1903. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 151, 1903. 



Tlieohaldia incidens Theobald, Can. Ent., xxxv, 311, 1903. 



Orabhamia vittata Theobald (in part). Can. Ent, xxxv, 313, 315, 1903. 



Culex incidens Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, 38, 1904. 



Culiseta incidens Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391c, 1904. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Gen. Ins., 26me Fasc, 23, 1905. 



Theobaldinella incidens Blanchard. Les Moust., 393, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Aldrich, Cat. N. Am. Dipt, 126, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 24, 55, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Felt, Bull., 97, N. Y. State Mus., 480, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent, Tech. Ser. 11, 22, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular No. 72, 4, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Quayle, Univ. Cal. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. 178, 45, 1906. 



Culiseta incidens Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 203, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 279, 1907. 



Culex particeps Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 279, 1907. 



Culiseta incidens Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 122, 1907. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 275, 1910. 



Obiginal, Description of Culex incidens : 



Fuscus, opacus, abdomine nigro segmentis albo-marginatis, pedibus nigricantibus, 

 coxis femoribusque albidis, his apice lineaque superne nigra; alis nervis transversis 

 ordinario et brachiali incidentibus, subhyalinis fascia pone medium pellucida. $. 

 Long. 5 mill. 



Patria: California. 



Statura omnino praecedentis [Culex camptorhynchus Thomson, ex Sydney], pro- 

 boscide recta, abdomine albo-annulato, colore pedum et nervo transverso ordinario 

 cum transverso brachiali in linea eadem verticali sito mox distinctus; fuscus opacus. 

 Caput ovato-orbiculare, thorace angustius, pilis suberectis parce vestitum fuscum, 

 oculis magnis subrenatis, fronte fere conniventibus, vertice convexo, brunneo; palpis 

 fuscis, proboscide abdominis longitudine, recta, tenui, filiformi fusca. Antennae 

 fuscae, scutelli apicem baud attingentes, articulis pilis erectis paucis verticillatis, 

 l:mo magno, subgloboso, 2:o 3:o longiore. Thorax oblongus, compressus latitu- 

 dine sua duplo altior, dorso convexo; pronotum superne baud discretum; mesonotum 

 apice producto, lineis dorsalibus nuUis, fuscum pilis subsquamosis fulvescentibus 

 submarmoratum, pleuris densius albido-squamosis; scutellum breve, transversum, 

 linea basali distincta transversim impressa, apice pilis porrectis pluribus ornatum; 

 postscutellum subdeclive fusco-brunneum, subglabrum, opacum, basi carinula ab- 

 breviata. Alae abdominis longitudine, hyalinte, lobo distincto, alula longe ciliata, 

 margine inferiore nervisque pilis adpressis, caducis brunneis instructis, cubitali et 

 brachiali ante f ureas subglabris quo fascia transversa pone medium formata; medi- 

 astino in tertia alae parte costam attingente, postcosta in apice excurrente, cubitali 

 paullo pone medium egrediente, ante nervum transversum ordinarium et furca dense 

 squamuloso, furca brachiali quam cubitali paullo breviore infra apicem alae mar- 

 ginem petente, nervo transverso ordinario et brachiali in eodem puucto incidentibus; 

 humerali in medio alae furcato, furca marginem inferiorem attingente, nervis 

 spuriis utrinque circumsepto; anali in medio alae marginem inferiorem petente, 

 axiliari obsoletissimo. 



Halteres obscure-testaceae. Abdomen thorace fere duplo longius, paullo angus- 

 tius, subdepressum, alte supra coxas posticas insertum, basi utrinque densius et 

 longius albido-pilosulum, segmentis 2-6 longitudine aequalibus, parce pilosis, sub- 

 transversis, nigris opacis, margine postico pilis adpressis subquamosis albidis ves- 

 titis. Pedes elongati, gracillimi, coxis albidis, apice contiguis, longitudine inter se 

 aequalibus; femora et tibiae pilis erectis parce ornata, longitudine aequalia, abdo- 

 mine baud breviora, subfiliformia, baud clavata, fusco-nigra; ilia apice et margine 

 inferiore albida; tarsis elongatis, articulis l:mo tibia vix breviore, 2-5 sensim longi- 

 tudine decrescentibus, 5:o 4:o fere duplo breviore, unguiculis parvis, pulvillis vix 

 ullis. 



