282 . MOSQUITOES 



whitish; scales on yellow portion of femora yellowish white, those on the re- 

 mainder and on tibia? violet blue, those on the tarsi black except on the front 

 joint of the hind tarsi, where they are white; claws of front tarsi toothed; 

 wings grayish hyaline, veins and scales brown, petiole of first submarginal cell 

 from two-fifths to three-fifths as long as that cell, hind cross-vein less than 

 its length from the small; length 4 mm." 



Remarks. 12 specimens of this form were taken at Nassau, June 22, 

 and Current Settlement, July 5. 



WYEOMYIA SMITHII (Coq.). 



Plate XLVIII, Fig. 2. 

 Aedes smithii Coquillett, 1901, Can. Ent, vol. xxxiii, p. 260. 



DESCRIPTION. " Black ; the pleuras largely, venter, bases of halteres, coxae 

 and bases of femora, yellow ; scales of upper side of body dark-brown, some on 

 the abdomen having a violaceous reflection ; scales of femora black, those on the 

 under side light yellow ; scales of hind tibiae black, those on the inner side and 

 on the front and middle tibiae, and their tarsi, light yellow ; tarsal claws simple ; 

 wings hyaline, first submarginal cell nearly twice as long as its petiole ; length, 

 3 mm." 



Remarks. 12 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Tarpum Bay, July 7; Long Island, July 15. 



CULEX CONFIRMATUS (Arrib.). 



Plate XLIX, Fig. 1. 

 Ochlerotatus confirmatus Arribalzoga, 1891, Rev. d. Mus. La Plata, vol. i, p. 46. 



DESCRIPTION. Color. Dark brown ; thorax silvery white. 



Size. Ordinary; length 4.5 to 5 mm. 



Head. Dark brown, clothed with pale creamy scales in the middle, ochra- 

 ceous ones at the side and behind, and with upright, ochraceous, forked ones; 

 sides with flat scales; eyes deep, purplish-black and silver; clypeus deep 

 purplish-brown; antennas dark brown; palpi black scaled, proboscis covered 

 with shiny black scales. 



Thorax. Clothed in front with pale, silky, yellowish, narrow, curved 

 scales, which gradually become pure silky-white about half way across the 

 mesonotum, the remaining parts of the mesonotum darker, covered with scat- 



