AEDES SQUAMIGER 705 



" As a biter, cantator stands in the front rank, and it is persistent in its attack. 

 It does no unnecessary singing and is not especially deliberate in choosing a 

 point of attack. It proceeds to business at once, and while its bite is not so 

 ' hot ' as that of soUicitans, i. e., it does not give the intense burning sensation, 

 it is really more painful and more lasting in its effects. 



" It might be added that this species flies during the day and bites when 

 opportunity offers ; but it is not so active as soUicitans in this respect and rises 

 only when disturbed. It is essentially an evening mosquito." 



North Atlantic coast of United States. 



Lincolnville, Maine, August, 1907 (H. G. Dyar) ; Melrose Highlands, Massa- 

 chusetts, May 22, 1908 (F. B. Lowe) ; Weekapaug, Ehode Island, July 22, 1903 

 (H. G. Dyar) ; New Haven, Connecticut, May 12, 1904 (H. L. Viereck) ; Bell- 

 port, New York (H. G. Dyar) ; Sheepshead Bay, New York, July 22, 1900 (H. 

 C. Weeks) ; Center Moriches, New York, September, 1903 (P. Fowler) ; Baby- 

 lon, New York, July 1, 1903 (W. W. Hewlett) ; Northport, New York, July 7, 

 1903 (J. P. Heyen) ; Summit, New Jersey, May 6 (La Eue Holmes) ; Salt 

 Meadows, New Jersey, April 10 (H. Brehme) ; South Orange, New Jersey, 

 July 20, 1903 (S. Miller) ; Fort Hancock, New Jersey (through C. S. Ludlow). 



AEDES SQUAMIGER (Coquillett) Dyar. 



Gulex squamiger Coquillett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, 85, 1902. 



Culex squamiger Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 281, 1904. 



Culicada squamiger Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391c, 1904. 



Grabhamia de niedmannii Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxvi, 234, 1904. 



Culex squamifer Blanchard (in part), Les Moustiques, 630, 1905. 



Grabhamia niedmanni Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 631, 1905. 



Grabhamia de neidmannii Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxviii, 132, 1906. 



Lepidoplatys squamiger Coquillett, Science, n. s., xxiii, 314, 1906. 



Lepidoplatys squamiger Quayle, Bull. 178, Univ. Cal. Agr. Exp. Sta., 41, 1906. 



TcEniorhynchus squamiger Quayle, Can. Ent., xxxviii, 27, 1906. 



Lepidoplatys squamiger Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 18, 1906. 



Culex squamiger Grossbeck, Can. Ent., xxxviii, 129, 1906. 



Aedes squamiger Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxii, 126, 1907. 



Lepidoplatys squamiger Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, iv, 501, 1907. 



Lepidoplatys squamiger Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, v, 453, 1910. 



Oeiqinai. Description of Citlex squamiger : 



Head and its members black, middle of proboscis brownish, scales of occiput 

 mixed golden and pale yellow, many black ones along the eyes, palpi black scaled, 

 those at base, before the middle and at apex white; body black, scales of middle of 

 mesonotum golden brown, those along the sides and on the pleura pale yellow, 

 bristly hairs of thorax mostly black, those of scutellum chiefly yellow; scales of 

 abdomen black, a large patch at base of each segment and several scales scattered 

 over the remainder pale yellow, scales of venter pale yellow; femora and tibiae 

 brown, the scales mixed black and yellow, not forming distinct bands, posterior 

 side of the femora yellow and yellow scaled ; tarsi black, the scales mixed black and 

 yellow, a band of whitish scales at bases of the last four joints, claws toothed; wings 

 hyaline, veins yellow, densely covered with rather broad mixed brown and whitish 

 scales and with many very narrow ones in the apical third of the wing, petiole of 

 first submarginal cell about two-thirds as long as that cell, crossveln at apex of 

 second basal cell less than its length from the one above it; halteres yellow, the 

 knobs marked with brown; length, 5 mm. Four female specimens. 



Habitat. Palo Alto (V. L. Kellogg), and San Lorenzo (G. Eisen), California. 



Type Cat. No. 6256, U. S. N. M. 



Original Desckiption of Grabhamia de niedmannh: 



Female. Head dark brown, covered with ochraceous curved scales, ochraceous 

 forked scales on the occiput, flat ochraceous, with a few brown scales on the sides, a 

 line of light scales around the eyes, and a few light hairs projecting forward between 

 the eyes; antennae brown, verticles brown, pubescence light, basal cell sparsely 

 white-scaled, first joint heavily white-scaled on the inner side; proboscis mostly 

 light-scaled, a few scattered brown scales, and the very base and tip dark; palpi dark, 

 with white tips and a white band about two-thirds the way down, probably at the 

 apex of the second joint, a few white scales at the base; eyes brown; clypeus brown. 



