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THE CA.NADIA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 43 



NEW CULICID.4{ FROM NORTH AMERICA. 



1!Y D. W. COQUILLETT, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



In the course of identifying the CuHcidai in the National Museum 

 collection and those received by Mr. L. O. Howard from various corre- 

 spondents, for mention in a paper which he is about to publish, entitled, 

 " Notes on the Life-history of Ciilex p2uigcns, with remarks about other 

 Mosquitoes," three forms were met with which clearly represent new 

 species ; and as Mr. Howard desires to exclude all matter of a purely 

 technical nature from his paper, it was deemed abvisable to publish the 

 new species in one of our scientific periodicals. Accordingly, the descrip- 

 tions are offered herewith : — 



Cnlex signifer, n. sp. — $ . Head velvet black, its tomentum silvery- 

 white, the pile black ; antenn;v, proboscis and palpi black, their tomen- 

 tum mixed brown and silvery-white, that on apices of palpi wholly silvery. 

 Thorax velvety brownish-black, marked on the anterior half with two 

 silvery-white subdorsal vittie, and with a silvery-white arcuate lateral line 

 extending the entire length of the thorax ; pleura marked with several 

 spots of silvery-white tomentum ; scutellura with two spots of similar 

 tomentum on the upper side and one at the tip. Abdomen black, its 

 tomentum violaceous, that at base of each segment white. Legs brown, 

 femora largely yellowish, the tomentum mixed brown and silvery-white, 

 that at apices of tibise pure white, each end of tarsal joints white, most 

 extended on the hind tarsi ; tarsal claws destitute of teeth on the under 

 side. Wings hyaline, veins yellowish, the scales mixed brown and white; 

 length, 4.8 mm. 



District of Columbia. A single specimen, captured by the writer in 

 June. 



NesLr/asciatus, Fabr., but the laicrai silvery line on the thorax is not 

 strongly bent inward at the middle, and the tarsal claws are not toothed. 



Cu/cx tarsalis, n. sp — $ . Head black, its pile and tomentum mixed 

 brown and white ; antenn;v brown, apices of joints one to eleven broadly 

 white, the hairs gray ; proboscis nearly twice as long as the head and 

 thorax united, naked, black, marked near the middle with a broad white 

 ring ; palpi slender, tapering to the tip, brown, the base of each joint 

 white, sides of last two joints and outer side of the preceding one rather 

 long gray pilose. Thorax black, marked with a dorsal gray vitta, tomen- 

 tum of thorax yellowish, except a white subdorsal undulating line each 

 side, a spot in front of the scutellum, above the root of each wmg, and on 



