264 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



T?-ichodesina pulchella, n. sp. — Oblong, slightly more robust than 

 gibbosa, black, with very short brown recumbent pubescence, intermixed 

 with longer erect hairs, sides of thorax, base of elytra, a narrow strongly 

 dentate median band and apex with a denser vvhite pubescence. Antennae 

 brownish, last three joints as long as the preceding. Head black, 

 with not densely-placed granules, clothed with white pubescence, denser 

 at apex. Thorax broader than long, sides arcuate in front, slightly to the 

 hind angles, which are almost rounded, disc gibbous behind, slightly 

 sulcate from the apical margin to the summit of gibbosity, surface 

 distinctly granulate, clothed with dense, very short hairs, white at sides 

 and apex, light brown at middle, without brush-like tufts at gibbosity. 

 Elytra as wide as the thorax at middle, surface with irregular, closely- 

 placed, coarse, deep punctures, clothed with very fine, short recumbent 

 brownish hairs, a band at base, a narrow, sharply dentate median fascia 

 and apex of dense white pubescence. Between the median fascia and the 

 white apical space near the suture is a white longitudinal streak on each 

 elytron, reaching to the apical space and terminated by a black spot. At 

 the apex of the white basal band is also a black spot on each side. Body 

 beneath black, shining, densely pubescent, with short, fine gray hairs. 



Length, 5.5-7 mm. 



Esperanza Ranch, near Brownsville, Tex. 



A number of this beautiful species I obtained by beating ebony, but 

 it occurred on different other trees also, but rarely. A few specimens of 

 a species which I take to be T. sordida, Horn, were taken at the same 

 place. 



CULEX CONSOBRINUS : A REJOINDER. 



BY J. M. ALDRICH, MOSCOW, IDAHO. 



In the August number of this journal, Mr. Coquillett has given his 

 reasons for not accepting Culex inortiatus as the proper name for the 

 species which he has called C. cofisobrinus. He bases his claim for the 

 name consobrinus on a supposed error of Desvoidy's in the indentifica- 

 tion oi pipiens, relying on the length mentioned, 3 lines, as proof that 

 Desvoidy's species could not have been the real pipiens. My own article 

 on the subject, in the July number, had intimated that Desvoidy had 

 erred in the measurement given. Since then I find that Theobald (Mon. 

 Culicida\ II.; 135) gives 6 mm. as the maximum length of pipietis ; this, 

 of course, is equivalent to Desvoidy's 3 lines. 



