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Male. — Is very like female ; fork scales on nape more numerous ; 

 antennte missing ; palpi longer than proboscis and clubbed ; ungues on 

 fore and mid legs unequal, the larger uniserrate. the smaller simple and 

 comparatively straight ; hind legs missing. Wing-cells shorter in propor- 

 tion, and the stems longer. Length, 3 mm. 



Habitat, Carandaugan, Mindanas, Philippine Islands. Taken 

 January 19, 1906. 



Neither specimen is perfect, and the male especially is in bad shape, 

 but there can be no reasonable doubt as to the genus, or that the species 

 is new. 



Described from one male and one female sent by Lieut. W. H. 

 Duncan, Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army, with specimens of Chaviberlainii; 

 it is an extremely small mosquito, quite as small as 6". minuta, Theob., or 

 S Ajuesii, Ludlow. 



NOTES ON RECURVARIA GIBSONELLA, KEARF. 



BY ARTHUR GIBSON, OTTAWA. 



Early in May, 1905, I collected at H^iill, Que., v/hich is just across 

 the Ottawa River from Ottawa, some very small larvre, each one of which 

 was enclosed within several leaves tied together at the tips of the branches 

 of the common Juniper, y/^«i/'<fr?/.y communis, L. From this material I 

 reared three moths, which were submitted to Mr. W. D. Kearfott for 

 examination. Deciding that they were new to science, he honoured me 

 by describing them in the January, 1907, number of the Canadian 

 Entomologis r under the name of Recurvaria Gibsonella. 



During the past season some further observations were made on the 

 s])ecies. On .April 27 I again visited the original locality, and found larva* 

 very abundant in their characteristic winter quarters. At that time of the 

 year each larva was found in a small tube-Tike enclosure at the tips of the 

 main branches and side twigs. As many as nine or ten leaves were drawn 

 together and fastened strongly with silk, in the centre of which the nearly 

 full-grown larva passed the winter. As these leaves are dead, or partly 

 so, and discoloured, the hibernaculum is easily found after having once 

 been seen. 



In early May a number of localities at and adjacent to Ottawa, where 

 the cemmcn Juniper is abundant, were visited, and in every instance 

 larvae were found in considerable numbers. The species is evidently a 

 common one, and will doubiless be found in many places where the above 

 plant is plentiful. 



nocembcT. 1907. 



