34 THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 



suitable conditions while the last two lay their eggs on water surfaces 

 to hatch as soon as temperature will permit. The first three are long 

 distance fliers, the last two move over only limited distances. The first 

 three winter in the egg stage, the last two winter in the adult form in 

 sheltered places.] 



A edes cantator CoquiWet 

 The Brown Salt Marsh Mosquito 



' DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERIZATION 

 [North Atlantic Coast of the United States. Trapped 5,217 females 

 in New Jersey.] 



Large, robust, brown ; thorax rather well covered with distinct spiny 

 hair ; beak not banded, wings not spotted, tarsi banded white or whitish 

 at base of each joint, but bands not well marked and gradually merg- 

 ing into the ground color. Indefinite whitish bands on abdomen, not 

 constricted in the center, diffuse toward apex, tend to cover entire seg- 

 ments. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE ADULT 



Measures 7 mm. long, exclusive of the beak, which is 31/2 mm. long; 

 11 mm. across wings. Head yellowish brown, large black eyes take 

 up sides and part of the top, beak dark brown, without markings, palpi 

 in female short, dark brown, four- jointed, clothed partly with scales 

 and set with moderately long hairs, the apical joint small, knob-like 

 and retracted. Male palpi long, three- jointed, brownish black, paler 

 at base, without markings, thickly scaled and with fan-like tufts of 

 hair toward tip. 



Male antennae plumose, half as long as palpi, brown, all joints cup- 

 shaped with circle of long hair, except two terminal ones ; these long, 

 slender, covered with short hair, and base of apical joint with six long 

 hairs. Antennae of female longer, very slender, approximately same 

 number of joints as male, set with hair of irregular lengths and cird'^ 

 of six long, bristle-like hairs at base. 



Thorax reddish brown, clothed with short, upright, golden-yellow 

 hairs. Legs brown, femur paler, almost white beneath, with knees white. 

 Tarsi blackish, all narrowly white-ringed at base ; rings not well defined, 

 merging into black and becoming almost obsolete toward tip on all feet. 



In male, anterior claw- joint inwardly excavated, set with spines and 

 bristles. Outer claw smaller than inner, both have single tooth in middle. 



