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Description. The larva according to Dyar has the head well 

 rounded, flattened, brown, darker on the vertex. The antennae 

 are long, brown, slender and with a single haired tuft at the 

 middle. The air tube is about three times as long as broad, taper- 

 ing" outwardly, its pecten teeth considerably elongaite. The comb 

 consists of a small patch of about 12 stout, rather elongate spines 

 with finely digitately divided tips. The}^ are arranged in an 

 irregular single row. 



Distribution. We have taken this species rather sparingly at 

 Poughkeepsie and Albany, while Johannsen has met with it at 

 Ithaca. It has been listed by Dr Howard, from New Hampshire,. 

 Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. 



Life history and habits. Dr Smith found the larvae of this 

 species in an iron pail half filled with water. He states that 

 they resemble those of Stegomyia fasciata and adds 

 that they are at once recognizable by the intensely black head and 

 the short, black anal tube. Dr Dyar states that captive females 

 deposit their eggs in patches or singly at the edge just below the 

 surface of the water, where they adhere slightly and remain 

 unhatohed till spring. We met with adults at Poughkeepsie and 

 Dr Dyar took them at Center Harbor N. H. between June 20 and 

 Julj^ 8, he adds that they become somewhat more common, con- 

 tinuing all summer. He believes the species to be single brooded,, 

 though he is unable to account for fresh specimens flying all 

 season, and this may possibly be due to a portion of the eggs 

 hatching after each heavy rain^ as in the case ofC. sollici- 

 t ans . 



Culex aurifer Coq. 



PI. 11, 25, 33, 46, 5.2, 55, fig. 1, 2 ; 2, 3 ; 2 ; 5 ; 2 ; 5 respectively 



This form is closely related toC. triseriatus Say, and 

 may be separated therefrom by the golden yellow scales on the 

 sides of the mesonotum. It has been taken in New Hampshire 

 and New Jersey by Messrs Dyar and Smith and we have captured, 

 it at Elizabethtown N. Y. Larvae were met with by Mr Brakeley 

 at Lahaway N. J. late in April and in May 1902, where they 

 occurred at a few points only in larger bodies of water associated 



