484 MOSQUITOES OF XOETH AMERICA 



Original Description of Ctilex impatiens : 



mas. Nigro-fuscus, fusco Mrtus, thorace trivittato, vitta intermedia apice furcata, 

 abdominis segmentis cano cinctis. pedibus fuscis. tarsis nigris, alis limpidis. 



Body dark brown, clothed with pale brown hairs: feelers and mouth black: chest 

 with three pale brown stripes, the middle one slender and forked towards the tip; 

 abdomen with a hoary band at the fore border of each segment; its sides clothed 

 with long hairs: thighs brown, with black tips; shanks dark brown; feet black: 

 wings colourless; veins brown; poisers very pale brown. 



fem. Rufus, flavo hirtus, thorace fusco trivittato, aidomine fusco, segmentis fiavo 

 cinctis, pedibus pallide fuscis, femorihus tibiisgue apice flavis, tarsis nigro-fuscis, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body red, clothed with yellow hairs : head thickly covered : chest with three brown 

 stripes: abdomen brown, with a yellow band at the fore border of each segment: 

 legs pale brown: tips of the thighs and of the shanks yellow; feet dark brown: wings 

 colourless; veins brown; poisers yellow, with brown tips. Length of the body 3 

 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. St Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by G. Barnston, Esq. 



Original Description of Culex pinguis: 



Foem. Cervinus, robustus; rostro apicem versus nigro; abdominis pube subau- 

 rata; pedibus robustis pallidioribus; alis cinereis, venis fulvis subpilosis. 



Female. Fawn-colour, stout. Proboscis much longer than the head, and the 

 thorax black towards the tip. Abdomen with slightly gilded down. Legs stout, paler 

 than the body; tarsi darker. Wings cinereous; veins tawny, slightly pilose; radial 

 and subapical veins, with long forks. Length of the body, SYz lines; of the wungs, 

 7 lines. [Fraser River, British Columbia.] 



Or.iGiNAL Description of Culex absobrixus: 



Larvae, first referred to Culex consobrinus Desv., were taken in a cold moun- 

 tain pool at Elizabetlitown, N. Y., July 8, where they were found in small numbers. 

 A few adults were captured in the same locality the latter part of August. 



Female. Proboscis about as long as the abdomen, dark brown; palpi light brown, 

 rather sparsely clothed with yellowish white scales. Antennae black, sparsely 

 clothed with short, brown hairs and with several long, black ones at bases of joints. 

 Eyes coarsely granulate, greenish. Occiput sparsely clothed by and margined an- 

 teriorly with white scales, and with a thick tuft of the same at the juncture of the 

 eyes; numerous erect, scattering, black scales occur among the yellowish white ones. 

 Thorax brown, clothed with a fine, appressed pile; a median line of dark brown or 

 black scales, golden yellow anteriorly and terminating at the posterior third in an 

 irregular, rather loose group of golden yellow hairs; a submedian line of golden 

 yellow hairs bordered internally with long, black ones and extending anteriorly into 

 a somewhat irregular patch. Anterior margin of thorax with golden and yellowish 

 white scales, the lateral margin bordered by long, blackish hairs, and internally 

 with a few yellowish white scales. Scutellum brownish, clothed apically with a row 

 of long, brownish hairs and with a pair of submedian patches of whitish scales an- 

 teriorly; postscutellum brownish, naked. Pleura clothed with irregular patches of 

 whitish and yellowish white scales. Dorsal surface of abdominal segments dark 

 brown, with well marked, creamy white basal bands; under surface suffused with 

 fine, creamy white scales. Wing veins dark, thickly clothed with dark brown scales; 

 posterior cross vein less than Vz its length from mid cross vein. Legs light brown, 

 with darker brown scales forming indistinct bands, there being lighter rings at the 

 apex of femora and tibiae. The markings are too faint to be construed as bands. 

 Claws simple. Petiole of first submarginal cell about Vz the length of the same, 

 and that of the second over Vz. Fringes and scales clothing the veins mostly dark 

 fuscous, thick, scales very long, narrow. Fringe composed of scales of several 

 lengths as in the pipiens group. Halteres capitate, stem and base yellowish, tip 

 black anteriorly. 



Male. Palpi long, purplish brown, without conspicuous plumes; 4 segmented, the 

 apical two joints being slightly larger than the longer basal ones, the second longer 

 than the first. Proboscis the same color, length and general appearance of the 

 palpus. Antennae rather sparsely ornamented with brownish plumes, brown, each 

 segment annulate with white. Eyes rather coarsely granulate, greenish black. 

 Occiput rather sparsely clothed with silvery yellow scales, which form a distinct line 

 on posterior border of the eyes, a sparse median tuft at their juncture, and also have 

 a somewhat linear arrangement each side of the median line; erect black forked 

 scales rather sparse. Thorax with a median line of mixed black, golden yellow 

 scales, obsolete posteriorly. Humeri sparsely clothed with an irregular patch of 

 golden yellow scales, with a few black ones intermixed. There is a submedian line 



