Nov., '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2J I 



morning of the 26th, some 40 specimens were secured : most 

 of them males. Another lot reached me April 3oth, and adults 

 began to issue May ist. 



It is probable that this is the same brood observed by Mr. 

 Brakeley, May u, 1901, and it would indicate- a very slow 

 growth early in the year. There was certainly a month be- 

 tween the first larvae and the first adult. It seems certain aNo 

 that the development of this series is very irregular, as indeed 

 might be expected, if the larvae hibernated. On the other 

 hand, the larvae found in November, 1901, were not in suffi- 

 cient abundance to account for the numbers found in the spring, 

 unless the wrigglers had sought winter quarters. That this is 

 not improbable is indicated by Mr. Brakeley's note that larvae 

 in November preferred remaining at the bottom of the breed- 

 ing jar. 



April 30, 1901, I visited the outskirts of Elizabeth with 

 Editor McBride, of the Elizabeth Journal, and Dr. Robinson, 

 of the Grammar School, who were conducting a mosquito cru- 

 sade in that city. In a bit of swampy woodland on the West- 

 field road, pools were found that contained a few larvae and 

 many pupae. From the pupae canadensis and am/an* were 

 bred ; but what larvae remained all produced canadensis. 



May 8, 1902, I sent Mr. E. L. Dickerson to the College 

 Farm to investigate the woodland pools, and he found a series 

 of full grown larvae and pupae, and another series of very small 

 larvae. Evidently the second brood had already made a start. 



May 22iid, a specimen of the adult was captured at Borden- 

 town by Mr. Brakeley, and at varying periods during the sum- 

 mer occasional adults were obtained : but not in such numbers 

 or under such conditions as to require special notice. 



This is the earliest and the latest mosquito occurring in New 

 Jersey, but it never becomes a nuisance in towns or in hou.^e^. 

 It will bite when given an opportunity, but does not seek the 

 opportunity. Its normal food is something othei than blo..d, 

 and its usual haunts are such as to make access t<> animal 

 juices exceptional. During the summer it drops out of >ight 

 ind does not occur in collection^ of the common mosquitoes of 

 anv localitv. 



