124 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxn. 



water barrel; Chico, in a horse trough [A.. N. Caudell); Phiiit Intro- 

 duction Garden, near Chico, in a barrel in a small stream; Klamath 

 Falls, Oregon, a captured specimen. 



Type.— C^i. No. 10008, U.S.N.M. 



The larva falls in the table" with pijnens and evhensis: it has the 

 tube live times as long as wide, somewhat fusiform in shape, the pecten 

 with about 11 teeth; lateral hairs of the third and fourth abdominal 

 segments in threes. 



This species has, no doubt, been confounded with tarsalis Coquillett, 

 but it differs conspicuously in the coloration of the underside of the 

 abdomen, which has onl}^ a row of round black spots, while in farsalis 

 there is a series of doubly bent transverse bars. 



CULEX ERYTHROTHORAX, new species. 



Head golden, reddish scaled behind, the eyes with a narrow white 

 border; proboscis blackish ; palpi red brown; antennae black. Thorax 

 light red, the scales fine, golden brown, striped by two impressed dis- 

 colorous areas in the membrane; sides light golden scaled; legs 

 blackish, the femora and tibiae broadly pale below, unhanded. Abdo- 

 men black above, mixed with pale ocherous scales, the bases of the 

 segments with rather narrow pale ocherous bands mixed with a few 

 dark scales; beneath with pale ocherous scales and golden hairs. 



Eighty specimens, Nigger Slough, Gardena; slough at San Onofre; 

 Sweetwater Junction, swamp full of reeds; Guadaloupe, slough covered 

 with reeds (A. N. Caudell); Salinas, California, a pool in a river bed 

 choked with vegetation. 



Ty^^.— Cat. No. 10009, U.S.N.M. 



The adults could only be taken in the midst of the tall reeds that 

 covered shallow sloughs by wading into the water. A person sitting 

 on the bank was immune from their attacks, but among the reeds they 

 bit viciously in the daytime. The larvae occurred among the reeds, 

 resting quietly at the surface in the Lenma^ though fish were present 

 in all the sloughs. Culex tarsalis and Anopheles were generall}" pre- 

 sent also, the mass of vegetation doubtless shielding them from the tish. 



CULEX CUBENSIS Bigot. 



This common house mosquito occurred in the South, ))ut soon became 

 scarce and finally absent northward. The localities are: San Diego, 

 larvffi in an old water vat on the wharf; National City, in a rain bar- 

 rel; Sweetwater Junction, in pools in a stream ))ed; Indio, in a water 

 barrel and a drain, the adults common and a nuisance at night (A. N. 

 Caudell); Coachella, in a pond; Laguna, in a well-hole by a lake; 



aJourii. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIV, ]90(i, p. 206. 



