ART. 1. MOSQUITOES OF THE UNITED STATES—DYAR. 87 
A medium-sized blackish mosquito with ringed legs and golden 
mesonotum. Mesonotum whitish golden on anterior half, this color 
also along the margins and antescutellar space behind, leaving a 
double brown patch on each side. Abdomen black above, with 
whitish basal segmental lateral spots and a more or less distinct 
dorsal row or broken pale line; venter whitish, the segments more 
or less, sometimes strongly, bordered with black at their apices. 
Legs black, the femora white beneath toward base; tarsi with mod- 
erate white rings at the bases of the joints, often slightly involving 
the tips also. 
The larvae live in holes in rocks along streams which become 
water filled. The adults bite readily, but occur only in the vicinity 
of rocky streams. Our single United States example differs in 
some details from the tropically distributed form, and perhaps will 
have to be separated as race zodsophus. 
Distribution.—Tropical America, from Brazil to Texas. 
United States Records. 
Texas: Kerrville, August 19, 1909 (F. C. Pratt). 
AEDES (TAENIORHYNCHUS) TAENIORHYNCHUS Wiedemann. 
Culerz taeniorhynchus WIEDEMANN, Dipt. Exot., p. 48, 1821. 
Culex damnosus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 3, p. 11, 1823. 
A rather small blackish mosquito. Mesonotum dark brown, uni- 
form. Abdomen black, with narrow basal segmental white bands, 
lateral spots white, those on the posterior segments about the middle 
of the segment and often visible in dorsal view; venter sordid 
yellowish, with dark bands at the apices of the segments. Legs 
black, the femora white beneath, tibiae somewhat sprinkled with 
pale scales; tarsi with narrow white rings at the bases of the joints, 
wider on the hind legs, the fifth hind tarsal all white or nearly so. 
Proboscis with a narrow white ring. Wing scales wholly blackish. 
The larvae inhabit pools near the seacoast that are slightly saline, 
but not directly filled by tides. They sometimes occur in enormous 
numbers along the coast. This is the species which in Florida is 
said to turn a white horse black in an instant when one drives into 
cover. It is not as abundant as sollicitans on the north Atlantic 
coast. 
Distribution Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America, from the 
Tropics to the lower temperate regions. 
United States Records. 
CONNECTICUT: East River, July 27, 1908 (C. R. Ely). 
NEw York: Bellport, August, 1902 (H. G. Dyar). 
Babylon, July 1, 2903 (W. W. Hewlett). 
Sag Harbor, July 7, 1903 (C. H. Wells). 
