204 Journal New York Entomological Society, [vol. xiv. 



The species is common in the western United States to the Pacific 

 coast, the larva? occurring in water barrels and tanks as Culex pipiens 

 does in the East, although not so exclusively a domestic mosquito. 

 The eggs are laid in .boats. Our easternmost record is Banff, Alberta, , 

 where the senior author collected it in sulphurous pools. 



Culiseta absobrinus Felt. 



Culi v absobrinus Felt, Bull. 79. N. Y. Sta. Mus., 318, 1904. 

 Culex absobrinus Dyar, Journ. X. V. ent. soc, xiii, 24, 1905. 

 Theobaldia absobrinus Dyar, Journ. X. Y. ent., soc, xiii, 107, 1905. 



The species has a northern distribution, being recorded from Eliz- 

 abethtown and Tupper Lake, New York, and Kaslo, British Colum- 

 bia. The larvae occur in permanent pools in the same manner as C. 

 incidens. We have not found them in artificial receptacles. 



Culiseta consobrinus Desvoidy. 



Culex consobrinus Desvoidy, Mem. soe. d'his. nat., Paris, iii, 4cnS, 1827. 



Culex con obrinus Dyar, Journ. N. Y. ent. soc., xi, 24, 1903. 



Cuh \ consobrinus Dupree & Morgan, Science, n. s., xvi, 1036, 1902. 



Culex magnipennis Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 324, 1904. 



Culex consobrinus Dyar, Journ. X. Y. ent. soc, xiii, 26, 1905. 



Culex consobrinus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 352, 1905. 



The species occurs throughout the eastern United States. We 

 have it from Baton Rouge, La. (Dupree), Urbana, 111. (Knab), Jack- 

 sonville, Fla. (Dyar), Albany, N. Y. (Felt). Professor Blanchard 

 gives western localities, which we have not seen verified by any 

 specimens from beyond the Rocky Mountains. The larvae live in 

 permanent water, often in pools left in the beds of streams in well 

 shaded places. 



Genus CULICELLA Felt. 



Culicella Felt, Bull. 79, X. Y. Sta. Mus., 391c, 1904. 



Culicella dyari Coquillett. 



Culex dyari Coquillett, Journ. X. Y. ent. soc, x, 192, 1902. 

 Culex dyari Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 364, 1905. 



The larva is one of the early Spring forms, although rather late in 

 the cold northern bogs. It is the only larva of the long-tubed series 

 that has such a habit. We took the species not uncommonly early 

 in Spring near Springfield, Mass., and the senior author has collected 

 it in New Hampshire, northern New York and eastern British Co- 



