126 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxii. 



AEDES VITTATUS Theobald. 



Specimens so labeled by Mr. Coquillett have been taken at Eureka and 

 Fieldbrook liy Mr, H. S. Barber, Ma}^ 'I'-l to June 6, and one at Pacific 

 Grove by Miss McCracken, -luly 2. Mr. Theobald described rlttata 

 from Pecos Canyon, New Mexico. We have three specimens from 

 that place, sent by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, two of which are .'<ylvestri.s, 

 but the third appears to be Theobald's recent species. It agrees with 

 his description except that the subcostal and first long veins are rather 

 feebly white scaled. This character varies a good deal, and I am 

 inclined to accept the identification. Mr. Barber, fortunately, took a 

 male at Eureka, the hind tarsal claws of which are uniserrated as 

 described by Theol)ald, The genitalia agree with those of ahjitchii 

 Felt/' No larvte have been obtained in California, but the species was 

 bred b}- me at Kaslo, British Columbia, and the larvse agree with those 

 of ahjitchii. AhJitcJiil Felt, then, will be referred as a synonjau of 

 vittata Theobald, and the larva which has been attributed to vittata 

 by Theobald will best be placed under Ouliseta incideois Thomson. 

 Everything points to this as an error of association.* The larv^ were 

 collected by Messrs. Grabham and Cockerell in the latter part of June, 

 a time when the larva3 of vittata {ahjitchii) would have all disappeared. 

 C. inciden.<^, however, would then be flourishing and it might have 

 been met with in any barrel or pool. Incidens is recorded in Mr. 

 Theobald's paper, but there is no mention of the larva. The only" 

 other larva mentioned is that of Cidex tarsalis {keUoggii)^ which is 

 also a Summer species, occurring with incidens. These two larva3 are 

 the ones always met with through the West, and are certainly the ones 

 encountered by Messrs. Grabham and Cockerell, who, through some 

 error, have attributed the incidens larvas to the new species, vittata 

 Theobald. 



AEDES SQUAMIGER Coquillett. 



This curious species lives in the salt marshes, in water left by the 

 highest tides. Adults were taken at National Cit}^ and liedondo 

 Beach, and larv* were twice obtained at the former place. It has 

 also been taken around San Francisco Bay (McCracken; Quayle), 

 but has not been observed farther north. Although the adult is so 

 difl'erent from quaylei Dyar and Knab, the larva is almost identical, 



«Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, 1905, p. 186; Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. Sta. Mus., 

 1905, pi. IX, fig. 1. 



^See Dyar, Journ. JS\ Y. Ent. Soc, XII, 1904, p. 173; Dyar and Knab, Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc, XIV, 1906, pp. 193, 203. 



