2o8 Journal New York Entomological Society, [vol. xiv. 



37. Pecten of the air tube of five teeth, the last two long and remote, on the 



basal one-seventh of the tube inimitabilis 



Peeten of numerous teeth densely and regularly spaced 38 



38. Lateral abdominal hairs single on segments 3 to 5 conservator 



Lateral abdominal hairs double on segments 3 to 5 39 



39. Air tube with four rather long single hairs on posterior margin. . .restrictor 

 Air tube with a single smail hair or none 40 



40 Pecten of the air tube reaching to one-fourth divisor 



Pecten of the air tube reaching to one-third latisquamma 



Culex bisulcatus Coquillett. Fig. 21. 



Micraedes bisulcatus Coquillett, Proc. ent, soc. Wash., vii, 185, 1906. 



The antennae have the tuft at the middle ; the head tufts multiple ; 

 air tube very long with long pecten reaching nearly half way, follow- 

 ed by scattered tufts. Anal segment with the chitinous ring furnish- 

 ed with long spines on the posterior edge. 



The specimens were collected by Mr. Busck in Guadeloupe on the 

 Soufriere, 3,000 feet altitude, and in San Domingo, from larvae in 

 Bromelias and leaf angles of Spanish Bayonet. 



Culex restuans Theobald. 



Culex restuans Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 142, 1901. 



Culex restuans Dyar, Journ, N. Y. ent. soc, x, 199, 1902. 



Culex restuans Smith, Ent. News, xiii, 302, 1902. 



Culex >> rtuans Dyar, Ent. News, xiv, 41, 1903. 



t nl, \ restuans Dyar, Proc. ent. soc. Wash., v, 144, 1903. 



Culex restuans Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 417, 1903. 



Culex restuans Smith, Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., 16, 1904. 



Culex restuans Dyar & Knab, Proc. ent. soc. Wash., vi, 143, 1904. 



Culex restuans Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 326, 1904. 



Culex restuans Smith, N. J. Agr. Ex. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 315, 1905. 



The larva is apparently a normal inhabitant of hollow trees and 

 dirty permanent pools. It is a wild species, native to the northeast- 

 ern part of the continent, but takes very kindly to rain water barrels 

 and other artificial breeding places. In places well removed from 

 the seaboard and from large towns, where Culex pipiens has not yet 

 penetrated, it is the dominant species in water barrels. Nearer the 

 coast, it appears mixed with pipiens. The eggs are laid in rafts and 

 the early stages are closely similar to pipiens, although the larva is 

 readily enough distinguished by the structure of the antennae. 



