AEDES AURIFER 767 



Culex aurifer Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xii, 172, 244, 1904. 



Culex aurifer Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 336, 1904. 



Culicelsa aurifer Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391 ft, 1904. 



Culex aurifer, Smith, Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., 38, 1904. 



Culex aurifer Smith, N. J. Apr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 298, 1905. 



Culicelsa aurifer Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 448, 473, 1905. 



Pseudoculex aurifer Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 47, 1905. 



Culex aurifer Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 629, 1905. 



Aiides aurifer Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 193, 1906. 



Ochlerotatus aurifer Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 19, 1906. 



Ochlerotatus aurifer Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circ. 72, 4, 1906. 



Culicada aurifer Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 351, 1907. 



Culicada aurifer Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 305, 1910. 



Aedes aurifer Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 720, 1910. 



Original Description of Culex aurifer: 



Female. Near triseriatus, but the scales on sides of mesonotum golden yellow 

 instead of white, and the venter is without crossbands of black scales. Black, the 

 halteres, coxae and femora largely yellow; scales and hairs of palpi brown, scales of 

 occiput golden yellow, the upright ones brown; scales in middle of mesonotum 

 brownish black, those on the sides and many in front of the scutellum golden yellow, 

 those of pleura pale yellow; scales of abdomen black, those on the venter pale yellow, 

 sometimes encroaching a trifle on the dorsum, hairs of the first segment and at the 

 apices of the others pale yellow; scales of femora and on posterior side of tibiae pale 

 yellow, remaining scales of tibiae and those on the tarsi black, front tarsal claws 

 toothed; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins long and narrow, hind cross vein 

 about its length from the small cross vein, petiole of first submarginal cell three- 

 fifths the length of the cell; length, 4.5 mm. 



Three specimens, collected June 22 and 25, by Dr. H. G. Dyar. 



Habitat. Centre Harbour, N. H. 



I have also examined two males and two females from Lahaway, N. J., bred by 

 Dr. J. B. Smith, who writes that the larva is very different from that of triseriatus. 

 The adult male is similar to the female except that the hairs of the palpi are chiefly 

 whitish, and the dorsum of the abdomen has several yellow scales on the apical half. 



Description of Female, Male, and Larva of AiioES aurifer: 



Female. Proboscis moderate, siibcylindrical ; labellge conically tapered; ves- 

 titure black ; setse minute, curved, black, those on labellge more prominently out- 

 standing. Palpi short, about one-fifth the length of the proboscis, clothed with 

 black scales, the bristles rather long, short and numerous on penultimate 

 joint, black. Antennae filiform, the joints subequal, rugose, pilose, black ; second 

 joint a little swollen towards middle, pale at its basal insertion ; tori subspherical, 

 with a cup-shaped apical excavation, dark brown, black on inner side, with some 

 minute black seta ; hairs of whorls moderate, sparse, black. Clypeus roundedly 

 triangular, prominent, black, nude. Eyes black. Occiput black, clothed with 

 narrow, curved scales on vertex, flat ones on sides, yellow in middle, a large black 

 patch each side of vertex; scales on the sides sordid white, divided by a large, 

 quadrate black patch ; a number of erect, forked black scales on nape ; setaB along 

 margins of eyes black, a tuft of golden-yellow ones projecting between eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, blackish, largely clothed with nar- 

 row, curved golden-yellow scales and pale bristles. Mesonotum black, clothed 

 with lanceolate, curved scales which are dark bronzy-brown on dorsum, yellowish 

 with golden luster on sides, the dark area forming a very broad median stripe, 

 reaching the anterior edge, abruptly broadened on posterior half and divided 

 behind by yellowish scales about the antescutollar space, a short, very narrow 

 line of yellow scales on each side of antescutellar space. Scutellum trilobate, 

 clothed with narrow, curved yellowish-white scales, each lobe with a group of 

 brownish black bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, brown, nude. 

 Pleurae blackish, coxae luteous, clothed with patches of flat elliptical yellowish- 

 white scales below, narrow, curved yellow ones on prothoracic epimera, and 

 rows of pale bristles. 



