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shorter and fewer posteriorly. Eighth segment has lateral patches of 

 scales, from thirty-five to forty in each patch. Scales fewer in young 

 larvae, usually of same shape. Anal siphon two and one-half times as 

 long as broad, with two rows barbed spines, sixteen to twenty-two in 

 each row in full grown larva. Single spines have from one to three teeth. 

 Ninth segment longer than wide, with barred area on ventral part, from 

 which issue fourteen to sixteen tufts of four or five hairs each. Two 

 tufts of hairs on dorsal apical margin, each with one very long hair. 

 Anal gills vary from very short to long, but usually short. In young 

 larva always short. 



HABITS OF THE EARLY STAGES 



Eggs laid as are soUicitans, but more abundantly and trifle larger. 

 Under ordinary conditions, larvae found nearer upland; rarely on 

 upland itself. Such cases probably from exceptional females developing 

 eggs after leaving marsh. 



Water, fresh, salt, or intermediate, but, fresh water pools formed 

 by rains or drainage preferred. In exceptional season, like 1904, tide 

 pools as well filled with larvae as others. 



Eggs hatch readily as soUicitans; when young almost impossible to 

 distinguish two species. As they become larger masculate head of 

 cantator becomes obvious, and resembles taeniorhynchus so closely that 

 without a lens impossible to discriminate between them. When full 

 grown shorter tube of latter species and somewhat larger size of 

 cantator give basis for distinction which requires experience to make. 

 Pupa does not differ obviously from others with which found. 



Number of broods depends on weather ; in midsummer, when marshes 

 become egg-covered, every heavy rain or extra tide means developing 

 mass. Early brood hatching in March develops slowly and irregularly, 

 adults appear early in April, all out by beginning of May. Not many 

 larvae of second series before beginning of June; mature during last 

 days of June. Thereafter larvae in some stage in every pool. 



Aedes soUicitans Walker 

 The White-Banded Salt Marsh Mosquito 



DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERIZATION 



[Primarily on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America, Ba- 

 hamas, Cuba, and Jamaica. Trapped 343,325 females in New Jersey.] 

 Broadly white-banded tarsi, white-banded beak, yellowish white 



