THE COMMON 3I0SQUIT0 83 



CULEX TRISERIATUS Say. 



Habitat : White Mountains, N. H. (Nat. Mus.) ; Delaware 

 County, Pa., June 12 (Johnson) ; Washington, D. C, May 

 5 and June 10 ; Loudon County, Va. (Pratt) ; Near Balti- 

 more, Md. (Thayer) ; Roanoke, Va., October (Thayer) ; 

 Middletown, Conn., June (Davis) ; New Jersey (Woldert). 



Dr. J. B. Smith's Observations on Oulex pungens. 



The observations made by the well-known State ento- 

 mologist of New Jersey on the larviB hibernation of Culex 

 paiigeiDs in pitcher plants are of such great interest that 

 they are given in full from advance sheets of an article 

 which Dr. Smith has been good enough to send me and 

 which was prepared for the Entomological News. 



New Jersey's reputation for mosquitoes is well established, and 

 more people come into our State annually to be bitten by our 

 shore species than go to any other State in the Union for any 

 like purpose. In some of the swampy districts in the Pines they 

 make life a burden at times, so when my good friend, J. Turner 

 Brakeley, wrote me in the late summer that in looking at the 

 contents of some pitcher-plant leaves he had found mosquito 

 larvae in abundance in the water they contained, it made no 

 especial impression upon me. It was in a way what I Avould 

 have expected, though no one had noted this so far as I could 

 then remember. Dr. Riley at one time bred a number of species 

 from this plant ; but seems either to have found no mos(iuitoes 

 or to have ignored them. Mrs. Treat made many interesting 

 observations on the feeding habits of the plant itself, feeding the 

 leaves with raw meat in place of tlie insects that ordinarily fall 

 into them : but she also ignored the mosquitoes. 



