AEDES ruLvus 625 



Tceniorhynchus fulvvs Giles, Journ. Trop. Med., vii, 383, 1904. 



Twniorhynchus fulvus Lutz in Bourroul, Mosquitos do Brasil, 70, 1904. 



Tceniorhynchus fulvus Goeldi, Os Mosquitos no ParS, 112, 1905. 



Chrysoconops fulvus Goeldi, Os Mosquitos no Pard, 114, 1905. 



Culex ochripes Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 275, 1905. 



Tceniorhynchus fulvus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 387, 1905. 



Psorophora fulva Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Bnt., Tech. Ser. 11, 14, 1906. 



Chrysoconops fulvus Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 493, 1907. 



Chrysoconops fulvus Peryassii, Os Culicideos do Brazil, 49, 230, 1908. 



Aedes fulvus Knab, Ent. News, xx, 387, 1909. 



Chrysoconops fulvus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 443, 1910. 



Oeiqinal Desckiption of Cuuex fulvtjs : 



Nigellus, fulvo hirtus, pedibus posticis fusco annulatis. Mit schwarzlichem, gold- 

 gelbbehaartem Korper und braunbandirten hintersten Beinen. 2l^ Linien $. Aus 

 Brasilien. 



Fiihler braunlich; Riissel und Taster (welche letztere etwas langer als gewohnlich 

 sind) goldgelb mit schwarzbrauner Spitze. Grundfarbe des Korpers glanzend braun- 

 lichschwarz, mit goldgelben Harchen dicht besetzt, die am Hinterleibe etwas bleicher 

 sind, und an den Einschnitten etwas Schwarzes durchscheinen lassen. Fliigel an 

 der Rippe goldgelb, mit schwarzbrauner Spitze. Beine goldgelb, an den vordersten 

 die aussersten Spitzen der Schenkel, Schienen und Fussglieder wenigstens obenauf 

 schwarzbraun; die mittlern Beine sind verloren gegangen: an den hintersten aber 

 haben Schenkel und Schienen auch nur die aussersten Spitzen, die Fussglieder 

 hingegen ihre Spitzen viel breiter und ringsum braunlichschwarz, so dass schon vom 

 zweiten Fussgliede nur die Wurzelhalfte, von den folgenden nur die ausserste Wurzel 

 gelb bleibt. Im Frankfurter Museum. 



Obiginal Descbiption of Ctjlex ochripes : 



Fuscus. Palpis (S subelongatis, Havis, apice nigris. Pedibus ochraceis. 



Long. 3. 1. $. Trompe longue d'une ligne trois quarts, jaune, S, extremite brune. 

 Palpes un peu allonges, depassant le tiers de la trompe, jaunes; dernier article noir, 

 un peu renfle. Face et rostre d'un fauve brunatre. Front brunatre. Antennes 

 manquant. Thorax et abdomen (denudes) bruns. Pieds d'un jaune ferrugineux. 

 Ailes grisatres, a bord exterieur roussatres. 



De I'Amerique meridionale. Museum. 



Original Descbiption of Culex flavicosta: 



Foem.: Fulva; proboscis testacea, apice nigra; palpi testacei; antennae fuscae, 

 basi testacea?; pedes robusti, testacei, femoribus tibiis et tarsorum articulis apice 

 nigris, tibiis posticis subpilosis; alae subcinereae, apice obscuriores, apud costam 

 flavescentes, venis f users ciliatis. 



Tawny. Proboscis and palpi testaceous. Proboscis slender, straight, black at the 

 tip. Antennae brown, testaceous at the base. Legs long, stout, testaceous; tips of 

 the femora, of the tibiae and of the joints of the tarsi black; hind tibiae thinly clothed 

 with short hairs; hind tarsi, excepting the metatarsus, black, the joints testaceous 

 at the base. Wings grayish, darker at the tips, yellowish along the costa; veins 

 brown, ciliated. Length of the body 3^/^ lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



Amazon Region. 



Description of Female of Aedes fulvus (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



Female. Proboscis rather long, slender, uniform, the labellag elongate, 

 pointed and slender; yellowish, densely clothed with golden-yellow flattened 

 scales, roughened towards base, extreme tip black for a short space. Palpi about 

 one-third as long as the proboscis, slender, golden-yellow scaled, apical third 

 black-scaled; bristles rather short, dark brown. Antenna long; tori globose, 

 pale yellow, with a few setae on inner side; second joint longer than the suc- 

 ceeding ones which are subequal, yellowish-brown, pilose, basally whitish 

 ringed; hairs of the whorls sparse, dark brown. Clypeus convex and bluntly 

 rounded before, nude, brownish-yellow. Eyes black. Occiput ocher yellow, 

 with numerous fine, narrow curved, golden-yellow scales, many long, erect, 

 forked pale brown scales with pale golden luster on back of occiput ; many pale 

 bristles, especially along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, small but prominent, clothed with many rather 

 short yellow setae. Mesonotum roundedly prominent before; bright ocherous 

 yellow, stained with dark brown, narrowly on the frontal angles and broadly over 



