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AEDES HARUSPICUS, new species. 



Female. — Proboscis rather short, slender, brown-scaled, with a 

 sprinkling of lighter ones, a light ring near the middle; palpi dark- 

 scaled; occiput clothed mostly with whitish scales and with four 

 quadrate patches of darker scales; mesonotum bright brown-scaled, 

 mottled with patches of white scales, these white scales densest in 

 the region before the scutelluni ; scutellum clothed with shining whit- 

 ish scales; scales of the pleura white; abdomen black-scaled above, 

 with broad apical soiled white bands on all but the last segment; 

 beneath mottled, with dull whitish and light brown scales, the seg- 

 ments becoming lighter apically, but without defined bands; femora 

 and tibiae black-scaled, with a sprinkling of lighter scales, a whitish 

 ring on each femur toward the apex; tarsi black, with white basal 

 rings, becoming successively narrower on each joint ; wings broad, 

 the scales on the veins black and white, giving a mottled effect ; claws 

 simple. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Male.- — The abdominal bands are clearer white and narrower than 

 in the female; othenvise the coloration is similar. 



Twenty-one specimens. Port Antonio, Jamaica, bred from larva? 

 in seaside pools, November 1."), 1906. (M. Grabham.) 



Type.— Cat. No. 11995, U.S.N.M. 



We expected that Doctor Grabham would himself describe this 

 species, but after the destruction of his collection by the earthquake 

 he has requested us to describe it from the specimens he had pre- 

 viously sent us. 



AEDES HORRIDUS, new species. 



Proboscis and palpi clothed with violet-black scales; occiput whit- 

 ish-scaled, with a violet-black spot at the side; mesonotum broadly 

 yellowish white-scaled at the sides, a band of deep brown scales occu- 

 pying about one-third of the width of the disk and extending back 

 to the antescutellar space, the lateral yellowish white scales surround- 

 ing the antescutellar space behind; scutellum yellowish white-scaled; 

 postscutellum densely yellowish white-scaled; abdomen above violet 

 blue with lateral apical yellowish spots on all but the last segment, 

 beneath yellowish-scaled, the seventh segment with basal violet scales, 

 eighth segment entirely violet -scaled. Legs deep violet-scaled, the 

 basal two-thirds of the femora yellowish, the knees silvery white, the 

 hind legs with the scales on the tibia 1 and tarsi roughened, suberect, 

 the last two joints white. Length, 4.5 mm. 



Fifty-six specimens: Victoria, Texas, May 31 (W. E. Hinds); 

 Cypress Bayou, Texas, August 23, 1903 (J. D. Mitchell); Green- 

 ville, Texas. June 30, 1904 (II. 8. Barber) ; Dallas, Texas, June 28 

 (II. S. Barber); Dennison, Texas, June 21 (H. S. Barber); West- 

 point, Mississippi, August 11, 1904 (H. S. Barber) ; Corinth, Missis- 



