214 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xv. 



on each side of the middle and another one well down the side ; prothoracic lobes 

 yellow scaled ; mesonotum bright ferruginous brown with silky luster, at the bases of 

 the wings and on the antescutellar area light yellow scaled, two submedian narrow 

 longitudinal yellow lines reach the base on each side of the antescutellar area; scu- 

 tellum yellow scaled, the setpe abundant and concolorous with the scales; metanotum 

 brown ; postscutellum clothed with dull yellowish white scales and with pale hairs ; 

 abdomen clothed principally with light scales above, at the bases of the segments 

 the scaling is dull yellowish white and shades oft' into a light ferruginous on the lighter 

 scales, on the apical two thirds of the segments there is a strong sprinkling of dusky 

 scales which becomes predominant on the second, third and fourth segments, beneath 

 the abdomen is entirely yellowish white scaled ; legs with the femora and tibiae pale 

 ochreous scaled with a sprinkling of blackish scales which becomes very heavy at the 

 apices, particularly on the tibiae ; tarsi black, with very broad basal yellowish white 

 rings. Claws all toothed. Wing-scales brown, heavily sprinkled with yellow ones 

 in the costal region, the scales long and narrow. Length 5.5 mm. 



^ . — Palpi slightly longer than the proboscis, clothed with dusky and yellowish 

 scales, which latter tend to form bands, the apical half densely clothed with brown 

 and pale ferruginous hairs with a silky luster ; abdomen long and slender, the apical 

 half depressed, the marginal cilia long and dense, pale yellow. Length, 6 mm. 



Si.xty-eight specimens, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (F. Knab), 

 found along the banks of the Assiniboine River, among the trees. 

 The female bites both by day and night. 



Tj>J>e. — No. 10875, U. S. National Museum. 



Culex egberti, new species. 



9- — Proboscis moderately long and slender, swollen towards the tip, roughly 

 black scaled ; palpi short, black ; occiput dark scaled, margins of the eyes dull whitish 

 scaled ; mesonotum brown scaled ; pleura dark brownish with patches of whitish 

 scales ; metanotum dark brown ; abdomen depressed, truncate at tip, black scaled 

 above, without metallic luster, the segments with narrow white basal bands which are 

 broadened at the sides, beneath with broad white basal bands ; legs black scaled with 

 bronzy luster, the femora light scaled beneath ; claws equal and simple ; scales of the 

 wings long and dense, broad on some of the veins, uniformly brown. Length, 3 mm. 



Three specimens, Warner's Camp, North Shore of Lake Okeecho- 

 bee, Florida (J. H. Egbert). 



Type. — No. 10876, U. S. National Museum. 



Named in honor of Dr. J. H. Egbert, who collected these and 

 other interesting mosquitoes in central Florida. Two of the specimens 

 are distended with blood. 



