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tilis, though darker in color, and presenting rather conspicuous 

 white bands at the base of the antennae. 

 Talven at Charlotte, N. C, August, 1917. 



Culex floridanus Dyar & Knab. 



The northernmost record of this species heretofore is Geor- 

 gia. A few larvae were found in a temporary rain pool along 

 a newly made street. The larvae were rather scarce as only 

 one was found at the first visit to this locality and four more 

 a month later. Their scarcity may have been in part due to the 

 presence of predacious larvae in the same pool. The larvae 

 were greyish in color and were rather small. They resembled, 

 somewhat, Psoropkora discolor, with which they were found, 

 and had the same habit of lying inverted at the bottom of the 

 pool. Two specimens were bred to maturity. 



Taken at Charlotte, N. C, July and August, 1915. 



NEW AMERICAN MOSQUITOES 



{Diptcra, CuUddcr) 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



Wyeomyia aphobema, new species. 



Male. Proboscis long, downcurved at the apical third and 

 swollen at the tip, clothed with black scales ; palpi about one- 

 eighth the length of the proboscis, black ; clypeus and tori 

 nude; antennae with the last two joints elongate and thickened, 

 with short hairs, the others white at their tips and with basal 

 whorls of long cilia ; eyes broadly contiguous at the vertex, but 

 separated in front by a narrow wedge of integument ; occiput 

 clothed with black scales with a bluish luster, a white margin I 

 on the sides below. Prothoracic lobes collar-like, clothed with 

 dark shining blue scales, showing a violet reflection. Meso- 

 notum with large dark brown scales. Postnotum nude. Abdo- 

 men blackish brown above, white below, the colors separated I 

 on the sides in a nearly straight line. Legs long and slender, 

 the front femora as long as the middle ones, hind femora 

 shorter ; hind tibiae slightly swollen at tip ; coloration bronzy 



