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of a somewhat triangular patcli of about 14 scales, each with the 



finely setose spatulate base prolonged into a stout spine. Air 



tube three to four times as long as broad, slightly conical, in 



each row 15 to 18 pecten teeth, the distal two 



widely separate and all of the continuous 



row with one or more basal teeth. 



This larva was taken in a woodland pool 

 at Karner, May 3, 1904, where it seems to 

 be somewhat abundant. 



Distribution. This species evidently has a 

 wide distribution in North America, since it 

 has been recorded by Dr Howard from sev- 

 Fisr. 63 Pecten tooth ^^'^^ British Columbian localities and a num- 

 . impiger ^^^ ^^ states, occurriug as far south ' as 



Georgia, the Isle of Pines and Jamaica, West Indies, and the city 

 of Mexico, and it probably ranges across the continent, because 

 Theobald lists it provisionally from California, and referring this 

 form to C. n i g r i p e s , also lists it from Lapland ; Greenland ; 

 the arctic circle generally; Cashmere, India; and Virgin bay, 

 Alaska. 



Culex consobrinus Desv. 



Examples presumably of this species have been recorded by 

 Dr Howard from the Catskills. He also lists it from a number 

 of states, and if the species from various localities is the same, it 

 evidently has a wide distribution, ranging from Canada south 

 to Louisiana and across the continent. The female kindly lent us 

 for study varies about the cross veins [pi. 9, fig. 1] from the 

 following two, specially the first, and there are other differences. 



Culex absobrinus n. sp. 



PI. 8, 22, 37, 45, 51, fig. 1, 2 ; 1, 2 ; 1 ; 4 ; 2 respectively 



Larvae, first referred to C u 1 e x consobrinus Desv., were 

 taken in a cold mountain pool at Elizabethtown N. Y., July 8, 

 where they were found in small numbers. A few adults we're 

 captured in the same locality the latter part of August. 



