Feb., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4I 



one's reach, only these two males are known to have been taken 

 in ten years. 



In the coloring of the thorax, this species approaches 6". 

 Jilosa ; its appendages suggest those of ^S. te^iebrosa ; hut pro- 

 vocans is manifestly quite distinct from these and every other 

 described species. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IIL 



Figs. I, 3-5. — Telagrion? daeckii n. sp. (^. i, X3/^ ; 3 and 4. left 

 profile and dorsal views respectively of the tenth abdominal segment and 

 appendages X 20 ; the stippled parts in 4 represent the upper branch of 

 each superior appendage ; 5, a third tarsal claw X 90- 



Figs. 2, ^.— Telagrion longum Selys, (^, Brazil, 2, wings X 3/^ ". 6, a 

 third tarsal claw X 90- N. B.— By an oversight the drawings of the wings 

 in fig. 2 were misplaced so that the upper figure is that of the hind wing, 

 the lower figure that of theyirow/ wing. 



Figs. 7, 8. — Somaiochlora provocans n. sp., (j^, dorsal and left profile 

 views respectively of the tenth abdominal segment and appendages X lo- 



All these figures have been drawn with the aid of the camera lucida. 



Culex restuans Theobald. 

 By Harrison G. Dyar. 



This mosquito was described from a single 9 specimen, 

 caught upon a window pane in Canada. It differed from 

 pipiens, as pointed out by Theobald, in the presence of certain 

 pale spots on the thorax and in the greater width and regu- 

 larity of the abdominal pale bands. I have now a very consid- 

 erable number of specimens of this form, and it appears that 

 these characters do not always hold. The abdominal banding 

 is quite characteristic of the females, but it does not serve to 

 differentiate the males from the same sex of pipieyis. The 

 thoracic spots, when present, are decisive, but they often be- 

 come small, rarely obsolete. Mr. Coquillett has carefully ex- 

 amined the specimens and has detected another character, 

 namely, a short pale banding at the extreme ends of the hind 

 tarsal joints, which is absent vol pipiens, so that the species may 

 be differentiated by this character when the others fail. 



The larva separates itself from all yet known by having a 

 long breathing tube and the antennal tuft before the middle of 



