AEDES CURRIEI 635 



Orabhamia curriei Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 48, 1905. 



Culex curriei Blanchard (in part), Les Moustiques, 285, 1905. 



Grahhamia curriei Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 397, 1905. 



Aedes grossbecki Dyar & Knab (in part), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 201, 1906. 



Ochlerotatus curriei Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 20, 1906. 



Grabhamia mediolineata Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxix, 129, 1907. 



Aedes curriei Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 128, 1907. 



Orabhamia curriei Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 285, 1907. 



Aedes curriei Knab, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., 1, 546, 1908. 



Orabhamia curriei Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 280, 1910. 



Orabhamia mediolineata Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 278, 1910. 



Original Description of Culex curriei: 



Head black, scales on lower parts of occiput white, on the upper part light yellow, 

 usually a patch of golden-brown ones between, a few erect black scales and bristles 

 on the sides, antennae and mouth-parts dark brown, base of the former yellow; body 

 black, scales of mesonotum light yellow, a median and usually a lateral vitta of 

 golden-brown ones, those of the pleura white, of the abdomen yellowish-white, a pair 

 of black-scaled spots on segments 2 to 5; femora and tibiae yellow, brownish at the 

 apices, covered with mixed yellowish-white and brown scales, tarsi brown, the front 

 ones having the base and apex of the first two joints and base of the third, the middle 

 with the base and apex of the first three joints and base of the fourth, the hind ones 

 with both ends of the first four joints and the whole of the last one, whitish, all 

 claws one-toothed; wings hyaline, scales of the veins mixed yellowish-white and 

 brown, petiole of first submarginal cell about three-fourths as long as that cell; 

 halteres yellow; length 4 to 5 mm. Five female specimens. Type No. 5798, U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Habitat. University, N. Dakota (June, 1896; Mr. R. P. Currie, after whom the 

 species is named) ; Colorado; Boise, Idaho (Mr. C. B. Sampson) ; and Palo Alto, Cal. 

 (Nov. 8, 1900; Prof. V. L. Kellogg). 



Near the European C. dorsalis, Meigen, but according to Theobald that species 

 has simple tarsal claws. 



Original Description of Grabhamia mediolineata: 



(Female.) Head dark brown or black, covered with long, curved, pale, almost 

 white scales, a few ochraceous ones; bright brown flat lateral, and slender white 

 forked scales on the occiput, some brown bristles between the eyes and around the 

 eyes; antennas dark brown, verticels dark brown, pubescence white, first joint 

 testaceous, and in some lights all the joints are apparently light banded, basal joint 

 testaceous, with slender flat white scales on the median surface; palpi black, a few 

 white scales at the tip, and occasionally at the base of penultimate joint; proboscis 

 black and quite long, tip black; clypeus black; eyes black and silver. 



Thorax black, prothoracic lobes with long pale ochraceous curved scales (spatu- 

 late?) ; mesonotum covered on the median third with bright brown slender curved 

 scales for about two-thirds in length, the caudad third with slender pale curved 

 scales; immediately laterad of this median stripe is a broad pale stripe of rather 

 broader curved scales, and exterior to this another stripe of brown curved scales 

 extending to the wing joint; scutellum black, covered with long slender curved 

 scales; pleura black, with long white spatulate scales; metanotum black. 



Abdomen black, covered with black and white or " dirty-white " scales, so arranged 

 as to make a slender median light line, transverse white bands mostly basal, but in- 

 volving both segments, and on the more caudad segments are almost entirely apical, 

 the distal segments being in some cases mostly white; white lateral spots, which are 

 really extensions of the white scaling of the venter, and on most of the segments 

 extend the whole length. 



Legs: Coxae and trochanters light, and white-scaled; femora white ventrally, 

 speckled black and white dorsally, a narrow black ring just proximal to the tiny 

 white knee spot; fore and mid tibiae white ventrally (on the hind legs this is re- 

 duced to a white line), speckled dorsally, a little darker near the apex, but the apex 

 light, and in the hind legs there is a distinct dark band and light apex as on the 

 femora; metatarsi speckled, those of the fore legs having light apices, of the hind 

 legs having both slightly lighter bases and light apices. On the fore legs the first 

 tarsal joints are black, with basal light bands, all the other joints dark; on the mid 

 leg the first and second joints are still a little speckled, and have white basal bands 

 and tiny white apical spots, sometimes unhanded, third and fourth joints dark; on 

 the hind legs the first and second joints are dark (black), with basal and apical light 

 bands, the third has a basal light band, and the fourth is light; all ungues equal and 

 uniserrate. 



