MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAE OF NEW YORK STATE 



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except the first segment of the anterior legs. Claws unidentate, 

 concave surface of teeth finely serrate. Wing veins dan"k, thickly 

 clothed with mixed yellow and brown scales. Petiole of first 

 •submarginal cell shorter than the cell, that of the second, longer; 

 posterior cross vein about its own length from the mid cross 

 vein. Length -^\r inch. 



Bred from an isolated larva and described while fTesh. 

 3Iale. Palpi brown, tipped with grayish yellow hairs, and with 

 a broad, yellowish white band near the base of the third seg- 



Figr. 20 Comb scale 

 much enlarged of C . 

 f itc hii 



Fig. 21 Air tube of 

 C. fitchii 



Fig. 22 Pecten tooth 

 of C. fitchii much 

 enlarged 



ment; underside of second, whitish. Thorax with a broad stripe 

 of golden brown scales separated by a narrow, median, brown 

 line and bordered laterally by a broad area of silvery gray scales 

 with a few brown patches interspersed. Abdomen brown, with 

 broad, basal bands 'on first and second segments, narrow on the 

 following ones. Legs marked as in the female, except that the 

 tarsal bands are broader; ungues unidentate; claws of anterior 

 and middle legs unequal, the longer claw of the middle leg being 

 nearly straight and quite different from the sinuous one of C. 

 c a n t a n s . Petiole of first submarginal cell distinctly longer 

 than the cell, and posterior cross vein less than its own length 

 from the middle cross vein. Length I/4 inch. 



