122 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MVSEmi. vol. xxxn. 



ANOPHELES PUNCTIPENNIS Say. 



Not nearly as cominon as the precediiio-, the couditioii.s obtaining on 

 the Atlantic coast being reversed here. In fact I am not certain that 

 the species occurs in Southern California, the only record being a 

 single damaged male, bred from a larva at Sweetwater Junction near 

 San Diego. The other specimens of the species were obtained farther 

 north, Chico, California; Portland^ Oregon; Nanaimo, Duncans, and 

 Wellington, British Columbia. Miss McCracken obtained the species, 

 rather plentifully, near San Francisco several years ago. 



ANOPHELES FRANCISCANUS McCracken. 



The species occurred less abundantly than maculipennis in the same 

 locations; bred specimens were obtained from Tia Juana. Mexico; 

 Clearwater, near Santa Ana, and Sweetwater Junction, near San 

 Diego. Miss McCracken described the species from Palo Alto. 



PSOROPHORA CILIATA Fabricus. 



A specimen is in the collection of the U. S. National Museum, taken 

 b}' Mr. D. W. Coquillett in Los Angeles. I did not meet with the 

 species, and it is quite likely that the remarkable growth of the city 

 has destroyed the breeding places since the time that Mr. Coquillett 

 collected there. The breeding places are temporary puddles occurring 

 after rain, when tilled by other mosquito larvae. Such puddles prob- 

 ably occur in California, though I did not encounter any. They must 

 be rare, as evidenced by the scarcity of the species breeding in them. 

 The larvae of Psorophora eiliata usually feed w^ow JantJilnosoma larvfe, 

 but as these do not occur in California they must live on Aedes sylves- 

 tris. The same conditions obtain in Massachusetts and northern New 

 York, where Psorophora ciUata exceeds the range of JanthiJiosoma, 

 and doubtless there also Aedes sylvestris is the victim. 



CULISETA INCIDENS Thomson. 



Common, the larv<¥ occurring in rain l)arreLs, reservoirs, etc., as 

 well as little pools by the streams. They were never in large numbers. 

 The species occurred everywhere up the coast, being, if anj^thing, 

 more abundant in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Cali- 

 fornian localities are: Pasadena, larvae in a water box in the arroyo 

 and in a pond in a lawn; Los Angeles, in water in a cellar; San Diego, 

 in a road puddle fed by a leak in a water pipe and in an old water vat 

 on a wharf; Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, in a rain-water barrel; 

 San Luis Obispo, in an old tin can; San Francisco, in water in a cellar 

 in the burnt district; Eureka, in various barrels; Dunsmuir, in pools 

 by the railroad track; Sisson, in the still edge of a ditch of cold water 

 flowing rapidl3^ 



