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black ones or. each side, the upright forked ones black and whitish ; first 

 submarginal cell noticeably less than twice as long as its petiole. 



Length, 3 mm. A female specimen collected July 29 by Mr. H. S. 

 Barber. Type No. 6559, U. S. N. M. 



Habitat. — Williams, Arizona. 

 Culex quadrivittatus, new species. 



$ . Differs from atropalpus as follows : Scales at apices of palpi 

 and several on the upper side white, scales of occiput yellowish and with 

 four patches of black ones ; scales of mesonotum black and with four 

 vitt?e, and lateral margin of golden yellow ones • abdomen black scaled, 

 each segment with a lateral patch of white ones extending nearly to the 

 middle of the venter ; scales of legs at apices of tibiae and of joints 

 of tarsi black, on the last two joints of the hind tarsi wholly black, tarsal 

 claws simple. 



Length, 4.5 mm. Eight females received, June 13, by Dr. L. O. 

 Howard from Prof. Gustav Eisen, of San Francisco, Cal. Type No. 

 6560, U. S. N. M. 



Habitat. — Chacula, Guatemala (6,600 feet altitude). 



A NEW MYODITES (RIIIPHTiORHXE). 



BY W. DWIGHT PIERCE, LINCOLN, NEBR. 



The specimens on which this description is based are in the 

 collections of the University of Nebraska and of the author. 1 owe 

 especial acknowledgments to Mr. J. C Crawford, Jr., for specimens and 

 field observations, and to Professor Brunei- for directing my work. A 

 sixteen-power glass was used in determining characters. 



Myodites solidaginis, n. sp. — Female : Length, 7.9 mm. Head 

 depressed, finely and evenly punctate, clad with dense yellowish-white, 

 perpendicular pubescence. ; antennae pectinate, ten-jointed, pubescent, 

 very finely punctate, third joint with base of tooth yellowish ; vertex 

 between antennas elevated ; mandibles with the exterior side finely 

 punctate, densely pubescent, grooved, in front and on interior sides 

 shining glabrous. Thorax densely punctate, with median groove, but 

 becoming mesially carinate behind the centre, clad with dense, upright, 

 yellowish-white pubescence. Scutellum very finely and densely punctate, 

 pubescent ; postscutellum shining glabrous ; metathorax bilobed, densely 

 pubescent, punctate ; first dorsal segment of abdomen glabrous, remaining 

 dorsal segments punctate, pubescent ; thorax and abdomen below, 

 pygidium and legs punctate, pubescent; elytra irregularly punctate, 



