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Montana: Drummond, July 10, 1917 (H. G. Dyar). 
WASHINGTON: Glacier, June, 1917 (H. G. Dyar). 
OREGON: Prospect, May 25, 1921 (H. G. Dyar). 
CALIFORNIA: Lakes Center Camp, July 1, 1920 (H. G. Dyar). 
Tahoe City, May, 1921 (H. G. Dyar). 
Fallen Leaf, June 9, 1916 (H. G. Dyar). 
Yosemite, May 17, 1916 (H. G. Dyar). 
AEDES (AEDES) VENTROVITTIS Dyar. 
Aédes ventrovittis Dyan, Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 4, p. 84, 1916. 
A small black mosquito. Head with the vertex clothed with long 
narrow white scales and black cleft ones, flat scales only at the sides 
in the female; the male has conspicuous flat black and white scales, 
but a broad channel of narrow ones on the vertex. Mesonotum olive 
gray, with a variously extensive median brown area, or two diffused 
brown lines. Abdomen black, with narrow white basal segmental 
bands, cleft on dorsal line and sometimes reduced to lateral spots; 
venter pale, with black bands at the apices of the segments and a 
median black line. Legs black, some whitish scales intermixed, espe- 
cially below; femora narrowly pale below. Wing scales black. 
This species is addicted to high mountains, appears early in the 
season and is soon gone. The adult bites with ferocity by day in 
mountain meadows and woods. The larva and breeding habits are 
unknown. 
Distribution —High mountains of California and probably Wash- 
ington, though the specimens from the latter locality are so much 
damaged that the identification is not certain. 
United States Records. 
CALIFORNIA: Fallen Leaf, June 15, 1916 (H. G. Dyar). 
Tahoe City, June 138, 1920 (H. G. Dyar). 
Gold Lake, July 4, 1916 (W. B. Herms). 
Camp Elwell, June 23, 1920 (H. G. Dyar). 
WasHineton: Mount Rainier, August 3, 1906 (Dyar and Caudell). 
Subgenus STEGOMYIA Theobald. 
AEDES (STEGOMYIA) AEGYPTI Linnaeus. 
Culex aegypti LINNAEUS, Hasselq. Palestina Reise, p. 470, 1762. 
Culex argenteus PorrEt, Journ. de Phys., vol. 30, p. 245, 1787. 
Culex fasciatus Fasricius (not Miiller, not Meigen), Syst. Antliat., p. 36, 
1805. 
Culex calopus MEIGEN, Syst. Beschr. Eur. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 38, 1818. 
Culex mosquito RoBiNEAU-Desvoipy, Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, vol. 3, 
p. 407, 1827. 
Culex frater RoBINEAU-DEsvorDy, Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist. Paris, vol. 3, 
p. 408, 1827. 
Culex taeniatus WIEDEMANN, Ausser, Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 10, 1828. 
Culex kounoupi Bruit, Exp. Sci. do Moree, Zool., vol. 38, p. 289, 1836. 
