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Dixa Meigen 



I), centralis Loew. Bar Harbor, July 25; Duck Brook, 



Sept. 11. 

 D. modesta Johan. Jordan Pond, June 10; S. W. Harbor, 



Aug. 30-Sept. 10 (Alexander). 

 D. pusca Loew. Flying Mt., Aug. 26 (Alexander). 



D. sp. Corfield, Sept. 8. 



Culicidae. The Mosquitoes 

 Chaoborinae 



Eucorethra Underwood 



E. underwoodi Underw. Pools in a spring run at the bead 

 . of Bear Brook, near Bar Harbor, July 21 ; Echo Lake, Sept. 



(Alexander). The larva is predaceous, feeding upon the 

 larvae of other mosquitoes. 



Chaoborus Lichtenstein 



C. nyblaei Zetterstedt (C. trivittatatus auct.). Duck Brook, 

 Sept. 11, 1922. A non-biting species. 



C. americanus (Johan.). (C . cristallina auct.). S. W. Har- 

 bor, July 13. These are non-biting. 



Culicinae 



Anopheles Meigen 



A. (anopheles) occidentalis Dyar & Knab (maculipennis) 

 of authors. Most references in literature under this name. 

 Outlet of Long Pond, June 20. Its relation to malaria is 

 unknown. 



Aedes Meigen 



A. sollicitans Walt. White-banded salt-marsh mosquito. 

 Narrows, June 26-Aug. 13. The most northern range for 

 this troublesome sea-coast mosquito. It breeds in the pools 

 in the salt marshes, wintering in the egg state. 



A. cantator Coq. ' * Brown salt-marsh mosquito. " Narrows ; 

 Bar Harbor; ''Great Heath"; S. W. Harbor, June 9- 

 Auff. 23. 



