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Comb of the eighth segment a single row of long sharp spines united 

 by chitin at the base. Air tube about twice as long as wide, slightly 

 tapered, the long spine-like pecten running from the base to the apex, 

 enclosing a fine hair tuft at the outer third. Anal segment triangular, 

 short on ventral line, about four fifths encircled by the plate which is 

 fringed with long spines behind. Ventral brush with a small plate 

 of chitin on each side of the barred area. Anal processes four, slen- 

 der, filiform, tapering to a point, about as long as the anal segment, 

 not tracheate. 



Larva of Grabhamia curriei Coq. — This was collected by Miss 

 Isabel McCracken at Stanford, Cal. and by Mr. O. A. Johannsen at 

 Ithaca, N. Y. It is of the ordinary short-tubed Culex type, yet rather 

 characteristic by the extremely short anal processes, which are mere 

 slight protuberances, shorter than in sollicitans. The head is dark 

 brown, spotted with blackish much as in cantator ; antennae small with 

 tuft at the middle ; eyes large. Body hairs rather short, much as usual ; 

 abdominal trachea? wide, band-shaped. Air tube two and a half times 

 as long as wide, the pecten long, spine-like, evenly set, without de- 

 tached teeth, branched at base, followed by a hair tuft a little beyond 

 the middle of the tube. Comb of the eighth segment of about 25 scales 

 in a multiple row the single scales broad and divided at tip. Anal 

 segment with dorsal plate reaching half way down the sides, irregular 

 on its termen. Ventral brush with a few hairs before the barred area. 



Note on Culex cantator Coq. — The larvae occurred at Weeka- 

 paug, R. I., mixed with sollicitans in the temporary salt pools on the 

 marshes and also in fresh water grassy marshes a little further from the 

 sea. Professor Smith's figure of the larva (Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. 

 Exp. Sta. , pi. vii, 1904) brings out the main structural points, but is 

 faulty in the representation of the anal segment, which is only about 

 three fourths ringed by the plate, not completely so as there shown. 



Hibernation of Melanoconion melanurus Coq. — We were 

 under the impression that this matter had gone on record, but such is 

 evidently not the case, since Dr. Felt says recently (N. Y. State Mus., 

 Bull. 79, 337, 1904) " the adult hibernating. " This species is very 

 peculiar in hibernating as the mature larva ; we know of no parallel case. 

 Mr. Hrakeley has demonstrated the fact beautifully. The large larva? in 

 the pools in the late fall cannot be made to pupate but persist in 

 hibernating. In the spring, however, after the ice is well melted 

 they will pupate, though the larva is always deliberate about its trans- 



