AEDES STIMULANS 679 



AEDES STIMULANS (Walker). 



Culex stimulans Walker, Cat. Dipt. Brit. Mus., i, 4, 1848. 



Culex stimulans Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 245, 1900. 



Culex stimulans Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, i, 399, 1901. 



Culex cantans Theobald (in part, not Meigen), Mon. Culic, i, 401, 1901. 



Culex cantans Smith (not Meigen), Ent. News, xiii, 300, pi. xv, f. 3, 1902. 



Culex cantans Giles (in part, not Meigen), Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 244, 416, 1902. 



Culex cantans Smith (not Meigen), Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. Exp. Stat., 24, 1904. 



Culex cantans Dyar (not Meigen), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xii, 174, 1904. 



Culex cantans Felt (not Meigen), Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 284, 1904. 



Culicada cantans Felt (not Meigen), Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391&, 1904. 



Culex cantans Smith (not Meigen), N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Kept. Mosq., 240, 1905. 



Culicada subcantans Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 448, 474, 1905. 



Aedes subcantans Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 202, 1906. 



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



Ochlerotatus subcantans Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular 72, 6, 1906. 



Culicada subcantans Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 324, 1907. 



Aedes subcantans Knab, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., 1, 547, 1908. 



Culex (Culicada) stimulans Speiser, Schrft. d. Physik.-okonom. Gesell. zu Konigs- 



berg i. Pr., xlix, 391, 1908. 

 Culicada subcantans Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 297, 1910. 



Culicada maculatus Theobald (in part, not Meigen), Mon. Culic, v, 296, 1910. 

 Aedes subcantans Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 718, 1910. 

 Culicada subcantans De Meijere, Tijdschr. v. Ent., liv, 146, 1911. 



Origin AT, Desceiption of Cxjlex stimulans : 



Fern. Fusco-rufus, capite thoraceque flavo hirtis, abdominis segmentis flavo- 

 cinctis, pedibus fuscis, tarsis nigris, flavo-cinctis, alis limpidis. 



Body brownish red: head and chest clothed with yellow hairs: mouth and feelers 

 dark brown: each segment of the abdomen with a band of yellow hairs on the fore 

 border, and with a few longer yellow hairs on the hind border: thighs pale brown, 

 with black tips; shanks darker brown; feet black, base of each joint pale yellow: 

 wings colourless; veins tawny; poisers pale yellow, with tawny tips. Length of the 

 body 2% lines; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Original Description of Ctxlicada subcantans: 



Oenitalia, male. Basal clasp segment stout, sides nearly parallel, tapering some- 

 what distally and with a well developed distal lobe. Terminal segment slender, 

 slightly swollen near the middle and with a long, slender, apical spine. Claspette a 

 slight basal lobe bearing a very long curved, chitinous spine and a few large setae. 

 Harpes with the proximal portion stout, and at the basal third several large, internal 

 spines; distal portion a very long, slender, halbert-like blade, with a slightly re- 

 curved, acute tip. Harpagones evenly rounded, terminating in a stout, recurved tooth 

 and with several smaller teeth. Unci approximate, rather broad, apex acute. Se- 

 taceous lobes well developed and bearing numerous large, chitinous spines. 



Female. Lobes stout, about four times as long as broad, gently rounded exteriorly 

 to a rather broadly rounded apex bearing a number of stout setae. Ventral plate as 

 broad as a lobe, extending slightly beyond the basal third; aplcally, strongly 

 emarginate and with a slightly sinuate lateral margin. 



The following is an abstract of the table : 



aa. Air-tube moderate in length, from about two to four times longer than its 



greatest diameter. 

 66666. Air tube with pecten, more or less tapering; comb scales present. 

 cc. Seventh abdominal segment without dorsal plate. 

 ddd. Comb scales 25 or more. 



//. Pecten not as above (i. e., pale, prolonged into setae). 

 gg. Tuft of antennae normal. 



hh. Comb scales each with a stout apical spine, 

 broadly spatulate at base. 

 i. Air tube about three times as long as its 

 greatest diameter; antennae moder- 

 ately long with a slight swelling near 

 the base, 25-50 comb scales and 16-24 

 pecten; head immaculate. .. .Brown 

 wood mosquito, Culicada subcantans 



