AEDES SOLLICITANS 659 



Oral)hamia sollicitans Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 278, 1910. 



Aedes sollicitans Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 717, 1910. 



Culex sollicitans Felt, Bull. 136, N. Y. State Mus., 24, 1910. 



Original Description of Culex sollicitans : 



Foem. Nigra, cervino tomentosa ; proboscis testacea, apice nigra; antennae basi 

 testaceae; thorax nigro bivittatus ; latera et pectus albida; abdomen maculis laterali- 

 bus nigris quadratis: pedes graciles, tarsis nigris albo cinctis; alae subcinereae, 

 venis testaceis nigro hirtis ; halter es testacei apice ftisci. 



Black, with fawn-coloured tomentum. Proboscis long, slender, curved, testaceous, 

 black towards the tip. Antennae black, testaceous at the base. Thorax with two 

 black stripes; sides and pectus whitish. Abdomen with two lateral black quadrate 

 spots on each segment; the two apical segments with narrower spots. Legs slender; 

 tarsi black, with white bands. Wings grayish; veins testaceous, fringed with 

 minute black hairs. Halteres testaceous, with brown knobs. Length of the body 3 

 lines; of the wings 5 lines. 



United States. 



Description of Fejiale, Male, Larva, and Egg of Aedes sollicitans: 



Female. Proboscis moderate, subcylindrical, uniform, labellae conically 

 tapered ; vestitiire black with a broad white ring somewhat beyond the middle ; 

 setge minute, black, those on labellae more prominently outstanding. Palpi mod- 

 erately short, stout, over one-fourth as long as the proboscis ; vestiture black, the 

 extreme tips white ; sets moderate, rather long, black, x^ntennse with the basal 

 joints somewhat shorter than the distal ones, rugose, pilose, blackish with minute 

 white tips ; tori subspherical, wdth a cup-shaped apical excavation, pale yellowish, 

 a small patch of white scales on inner side ; hairs of whorls sparse, rather short, 

 black. Clypeus prominent, conical, dark brown, nude. Eyes black. Occiput 

 dark brown, densely clothed with coarse, narrow curved scales which are dark 

 golden brown on the sides, brownish-yellow on the vertex, a number of short, 

 erect, forked pale scales on the nape, cheeks clothed Avith broad, flat white scales, 

 a small patch of dark ones well up the sides on ocular margin ; bristles border- 

 ing eyes few, black, a dense tuft of pale ones projecting between the eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed with golden-brown scales 

 above, white ones below, and coarse black bristles. Mesonotum black, densely 

 clothed with golden-brown scales; a pair of narrow, lighter, more yellowish 

 longitudinal stripes, and the scales of this lighter color in the antescutellar 

 region; broad stripes of deep brown scales on humeral angles; bristles rather 

 short, blackish. Scutellum trilobate, gray, clothed with pale ochraceous scales, 

 each lobe with a group of pale bristles. Postnotum shortly conical, prominent, 

 brown with irregular black streaks, nude. Pleura? and coxae brown, clothed with 

 elliptical, flat, pure white scales and rather numerous short bristles, which are 

 pale on pleuras but blackish on anterior coxae. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, posterior segments tapering ; dorsal vestiture of flat 

 black scales, a broad median stripe of pale yellowish grey ones, each segment 

 with a broad transverse basal band of the same color and a very narrow apical 

 one, along the sides a row of median segmentary pure white patches, larger pos- 

 teriorly ; first segment with a large patch of pale grey scales and with many fine 

 pale hairs ; venter clothed with black and white scales, the white predominating, 

 the black forming a diffused median line. Cerci black. 



Wings moderately broad, slightly infuscated ; petiole of second marginal cell 

 shorter than its cell, that of second posterior cell also shorter but less markedly 

 so ; basal cross- vein about its own length from anterior cross-vein ; scales rather 

 broad, black and white evenly intermixed, the black predominating, especially 

 on costal edge ; outstanding scales along second and third veins and along the 

 ends of all the veins broadly linear, black ; fringe unicolorous, dusky. Halteres 

 entirely pale. 



