194 Journal Xkw York Entomological Society, [vol. xiV. 



Aedes sylvestris Theobald. 



Culex sylvestris Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 406, 1901. 



Culex cantans Dyar (not Meigen), Proc. ent. soc. Wash., v, 47, 142, 1902. 



Culex sylvestris Smith, Ent. News, xiii, ,303, 1902. 



Cult \ sylvt stris Dyar, Science, n. s., xvi, 672, 1902. 



Culex sylvestris Smith, Rept. ent. Dept. N. J. Agr. exp. Sta., 540, 1903. 



Culex sylvestris Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 422, 1903. 



( HI, i sylvestris Smith, Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. exp. Sta., 25, 1904. 



( 11I, \ sylvestris Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. Sta., Mus., 291, 1904. 



Culex sylvestris Smith, N. J. Agr. exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 251, 1905. 



Culex montcalmi Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 307, 1905. 



Probably the most generally abundant mosquito of the Atlantic 

 region, breeding all Summer. It is a woods mosquito, the larvae 

 living in temporary rain pools. Near Washington, a large brood of 

 sylvestris hatches in the early pools but it occurs also later after 

 heavy rains. The eggs hibernate, scattered in the mud. 



Prof. Blanchard has changed the name on the ground that sylves- 

 tris Theobald is preoccupied by silvestris Ross; but besides the 

 slightly different spelling, Ross' name is said to be a "nomen nudum' ' 

 and we therefore do not think that the change is required by the 

 rules. 



Aedes fuscus Osten=Sacken. 



Aedes fuscus Osten-Sacken, Bull, U. S. Surv., iii, i<)i, 1S77. 

 Aedes fuscus Dyar, Journ. N. Y. ent. soc, x, 197, 1903. 

 Aedes fuscus Dyar, Proc. ent. soc. Wash., v, 145, 1903 

 Aedes fuscus Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 340, 1904. 

 Aedes fuscus Smith, N. J. Agr. exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 335, 1905 

 Aedes fuscus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 402, 1905. 



This occurs with the preceding and has the same habits, though 

 the distribution is more northern. We have not taken it around 

 Washington 



' Aedes punctor Kirby. 



Culex punctor Kirby, Faun. Bor.-Am., iv, 308, [837. 

 Culex punctor Dyar, Proc. ent. soc. Wash., vi, 39, 1904. 

 Culex abserratus Felt & Young, Science, N. S., xx, 505, 1904. 

 Culex punctor Dyar, Journ. N. Y. ent. soc, xii, 169, 245, 1904. 

 Culex punctor Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 359, [905. 



One of the early Spring forms, all of which have similar habits and 

 distribution. We have little idea that this is the species actually in- 



