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United States Records. 
Mississippi: Electric Mills (J. A. Le Prince). 
AEDES (HETERONYCHA) CANTATOR Coquillett. 
Culex cantator CoguILLettT, Can. Ent., vol. 35, p. 255, 1903. 
A medium-sized brown mosquito, with very small tarsal rings. 
Mesonotum reddish brown, a little gray over the antescutellar space, 
median and posterior lateral bands faintly darker. Abdomen black, 
with dull-white basal segmental bands, excavated centrally, the scales 
also somewhat diffused and occupying most of the last segment dor- 
sally; venter whitish, with median black spots. Legs blackish 
brown, the femora white below; tarsi with very narrow white rings 
at the bases of the joints. Wing scales wholly blackish. 
Very much like vexans in coloration, but wholly unrelated thereto. 
The coloration of the abdomen furnishes the best differentiation. 
The winter is passed in the egg state, the larvae developing in 
salt-marsh pools along the Atlantic littoral, several generations suc- 
ceeding each other, according as the pools are filled by exceptionally 
high tides or rains. The females travel some miles inland, and 
become annoying far from their breeding places. The mating habits 
of the males have not been described. 
Distribution.—Atlantic coast from Maryland to Maine. 
United States Records. 
Maine: Lincolnville, August, 1907 (H. G. Dyar). 
Portland, September 5, 1920 (Army Medical Museum). 
Massacuusetts: Melrose Highlands, May 22, 1908 (F. B. Lowe). 
RuHOopDE IsLAND: Weekapaug, July 22, 1903 (H. G. Dvyar). 
Connecticut: New Haven, May 12, 1904 (H. L. Viereck). 
New York: Sheepshead Bay, July 22, 1900 (H. C. Weeks). 
Center Moriches, September, 1903 (P. Fowler). 
Bellport (H. G. Dyar). 
Babylon, July 1, 1908 (W. W. Hewlett). 
Northport, July 7, 1903 (J. P. Heyen). 
New Jersey: Summit, May 6 (La Rue Holmes). 
Salt Meadows, April 10 (H. H. Brehme). 
South Orange, July 20, 1903 (S. Miller). 
Fort Hancock (Army Medical Museum). 
MaryLanp: Chesapeake Beach, August 31, 1913 (F. Knab). 
AEDES (HETERONYCHA) FITCHII Felt and Young. 
Culex fitchii Fett and Youne, Science, new series, vol. 20, p. 312, 1904. 
A rather large brown mosquito with ringed legs. Mesonotum 
yellowish gray on the sides, a broad reddish brown or dark brown 
band in the middle, joining the short posterior stripes. Abdomen 
blackish, with basal segmental white bands, widening on the sides, 
and some white scales on the apices of the segments also; venter 
