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seems less likely. Mr. Brakeley's latest capture in 1905 was September 

 12tli, seventeen days later than any previous record. All sorts of pos- 

 sible breeding places were investigated by Mr. Brehme and some by 

 Mr. Grossbeck, in several parts of the State; but no larvas were 

 secured. 



Culex tceniorhynchus Wied. (The Small, Salt Marsh Mosquito). — 

 This was very rare throughout the season. A single female specimen 

 was sent in from Lahaway, and this is not only the farthest point 

 inland where it has been taken; but the first time it was taken there 

 at all. 



Culex sylvicola. Grossb.* (The Scaly- Winged Mosquito). — Larvse 

 were found in some numbers in swampy woods near New Brunswick, 

 where they were taken the year before. They were rare as compared 

 with their associate, Culex canadensis, the ratio being about one 

 sylvicola to 1,000 canadensis. April 10th ten larvse and four pupae 

 were secured, and on May 2d two larvae and thirty pupae, showing that 

 the larvae pupate almost simultaneously. Most of the larvae were 

 placed in alcohol and from the pup^e adults emerged as follows : 

 Twelve males and one female May 4th, two males and twelve females 

 May 5th, two males and six females May 6th and one male and one 

 female May 7th. 



As previously noted there is apparently only a single spring brood. 

 No later collections turned up additional material, and adult captures 

 were more, and more worn as the season advanced. 



Culex cantator Coq. (The Brown, Salt Marsh Mosquito). — The 

 early broods on the New Jersey salt marshes north of the Raritan 

 bay were of this species, almost exclusively, and, while the brood on 

 the Newark marshes was entirely absent and on the Elizabeth marshes 

 not very heavy, the Linden area sent two very respectable swarms a 

 considerable distance inland. At New Brunswick this was the domi- 

 nant species throughout the season, though the spring migrations were 

 small and even the September swarms not very heavy. All the 

 previous observations were confirmed. 



Cvlex cantans Meig. (The Brown Woods Mosquito) .—It is strange 

 that where this species bred in great numbers in Newark a few years 

 ago, it should be entirely absent in 1905; and that in the Great Piece 

 meadows, twelve or more miles distant, which had been thoroughly 

 explored previously without finding the species, it should occur com- 

 monly. Not a larva was found in Newark, in the pools where it was 



* This is the species erroueously identified as the Pacific coast squamiger in 

 previous reports. 



