^6o AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



CULEX ATROPALPUS, COQ. 



The Rock Pool Mosquito. 



This mosquito has not as yet been found in New Jersey. It 

 has been taken in Maine and New Hampshire and also along the 

 Potomac River, Maryland ; thus New Jersey is within the faunal 

 range of the species and its occurence, therefore, is probable. It 



Figure 79. 



Culex atropalpus: i, female adult; 2, anterior claw of same; 3, anterior, 4, middle, and 

 S, posterior claws of male: all enlarged. (Original.) 



is closely allied to C. canadensis, the tarsi being ringed with 

 white on both sides of the joints except in the last two of the 

 hind feet and the last three of the fore and mid feet; the last 

 joints of the hind pair are wholly white. The beak is unhanded. 



