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In addition to the generic characters wliich have been pointed 

 out, I may say that the wing is heavily fringed with long hairs, 

 and the veins are covered with scales. The venation is shown 

 in fig.9. 



Of the life history Professor Smith has given an account in the 

 Canadian Entomologist for 1902. 



Corethrella brakeleyi Coquillett 



Ent. News. INIarcb 1902. p.So 



Male and female. Dai'k brown, the antennae, halteres, knees 

 and tarsi yellow, plumosity of male antennae yellow, mesonotum 

 opaque, gray pruinose except three narrow viltae and a few spots 

 near the humeri, hairs of thorax brownish, those of the abdomen 

 yellow, tibiae and taisi bearing many long hairs; first joint of 

 front tarsi slightly shorter than the tibia; wings whitish hyaline, 

 marked with a brown cross band near one third and two thirds 

 its leng'th, the flrst one oblique, the second band produced tri- 

 angularly near middle of its inner side, costal margin on each 

 eide of this band strongh' tinged with golden yellow, fringe 

 white, marked with a brown spot at posterior end of each cross 

 band and on either side of the extreme wing tip. Length, 1.5 

 mm. 



One male and three females, bred jointly, Aug. 12 to 14, by 

 Mr J. T. Brakeley and Prof. J. P. Bmith, Habitat-Lahaway X. J. 



PEL,oRE>ipis nov. gen. 



Two peculiar lai'vae were found in a ])ail of cold sjiring water 



iit Saranac Inn by Professor Needham, June 1900. One of them 



was kept till the tiy enun-gcd; the other till it had changed into 



a pupa. Potli the larva and adult differ so much from all 



the species of the Culicidae that a new genus is necessary to 



contain it. 



Female. Larg(^ sjsecies resembling P s o r o ji h o r a in gen- 

 eral a])]iearance. Head rounded; occiput strongly developed; 

 proboscis a little longer tluin the hight of the head with rounded 

 labellae; ]>alpi longer than the proboscis, four joiuled (not 

 <ounting the small basal joint [.sec fig. 10, 11]; the two end 

 joints each longer than the jireceding; antennae 15 jointed, tlie 

 basal joint disklike, llie second one short and thick, the rest, 

 including the apical one, small, f'^ubequal in length, verticillate 

 with a few hairs (»f uioihM'ate lenglli; eyes kidney-shaped, mucli 

 cut out around the base of antennae, separated from each other 

 .on top of head by only a narrow s])ace; ocelli wanting; thorax 



