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C. cantator appears earlier and may fly long before the salt 

 marsh mosquito appears in large numbers. He also considers C 

 cantator more northern in range, since it equals or exceeds 

 the salt marsh mosquito on the Raritan and Newark marshes; it- 

 is hardly noticeable from Barnegat bay southward. 



Culex soUicitans Walk. 

 White handed salt marsh mosquito 



PI. 4, 17, 18, 32, 42, 50, fig. 3, 4; 4; 1; 1; 2; 3 respectively 



This mosquito is by far the most abundant of our coast species,. 

 and the one of greatest economic importance along our seashores.- 



¥i^. 34 Female and toothed front tarsal claw, Culex 

 soUicitans. (After Howard. U. S. Dep't Agric. Div. Bnt. 

 Bui. 35. 1900) 



It is the species, more than any other, against which extensive 

 efforts have been directed in attempts to reduce its annoying, 

 pestifeipous hordes. 



Description. This is one of the few species in which the pro- 

 boscis is marked near the middle with a light colored band. It is 

 readily separated from C. taeniorhynchus Wied. by the 

 yellow median stripe along the dorsu^ of the abdomen. Abraded 



