MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAB OP NEW YORK STATE 



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Female. Proboscis about as long as the abdomen, dark brown; 

 palpi light brown, rather sparsely clothed with yellowish white 

 scales. Antennate black, sparsely clothed with short, brown 

 hairs and with several long, black ones at bases of joints. Eyes 

 coarsely granulate, greenish. Occiput sparsely clothed by and mar- 

 gined anteriorly with white scales, and with a thick tuft of the. 

 same at the juncture of the eyes ; numer- 

 ous erect, scattering, black scales occur 

 among the yellowish white ones. Thorax 

 brown, clothed with a fine, appressed 

 pile; a median line of dark brown or 

 black scales, golden yellow anteriorly 

 and terminating at the posterior third 

 in an irregular, rather loose group of 

 golden yellow hairs; a submedian line 

 of golden yellow hairs bordered intern- 

 ally with long, black ones and extend- 

 ing anteriorly into a somewhat irregu- 

 lar patch. Anterior margin of thorax 

 with golden and yellowish white scales, 

 the lateral margin bordered by long, 

 blackish hairs, and internally with a 

 few yellowish white scales. Scutellum 

 brownish, clothed apically with a row 

 of long, brownish hairs and with a pair 

 of submedian patches of whitish scales 

 anteriorly ; postscutellum brownish, 

 naked. Pleura clothed with irregular 

 patches of whitish and yellowish 

 white scales. Dorsal surface of ab- 

 dominal segments dark brown, with 

 well marked, creamy white basal bands ; 

 ander surface suffused with fine, 

 creamy white scales. Wing veins dark, thickly clothed with dark 

 brown scales ; posterior cross vein less than % its length from 

 mid cross vein. Legs light brown, with darker brown scales 

 forming indistinct bands, there being lighter rings at the apex of 

 femora and tibiae. The markings are too faint to be construed 

 as bands. Claws simple. Petiole of first submarginal cell about 

 % the length of the same, and that of the second over i/o. Fringes 

 and scales clothing the veins mostly dark fuscous, thick, scales 

 very long, narrow. Fringe composed of scales of several lengths 

 as in the pipiens group. Halteres capitate, stem and base yellow- 

 ish, tip black anteriorly. 



Male. Palpi long, purplish brown, without conspicuous; 

 plumes; 4 segmented, the apical two joints being slightly larger 



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;•. 64 Larval antenna of 

 Culex absobrinus 



