AQUATIC INSECTS IN NEW YORK STATE AE 
Culex restuans Theobald 
Plate 44 
Monogr. of Culicidae, I1:142 
Male. Length 4.5 to 5 mm. Uniformly fuscous. Palpi as 
in plate 44, figure 12. The thorax is apparently marked with 
stripes; bases of the abdominal segments with yellow scales;. 
bases of the femora and the tips of the tibiae yellow. Tarsal 
claws of the fore and middle legs unequal, each with a tooth, 
hind claws simple. Male genitalia resemble those shown on 
plate 43, figure 11; but the apex of the terminal claw is sinuous, 
and with a tiny hooked appendage. Wings hyaline, with fuscous 
scales. Venation as in figure 9. Halteres pale. 
Female. Palpias shown in figure 13. Al tarsal claws simple. 
Venation of the wing as in figure 10. In other respects like the 
male. | 
Described from alcoholic specimens obtained from Professor 
Needham. Bred. Saranac Inn N. Y., July 21, 1900. 
Larva. Length 7 to 8mm. The head is round, widest at the 
eyes, Slightly wider than long, with six moderately long hair 
tufts in a transverse row immediately back of the antennae; the 
antennae slender, uniform, and brown in color but paler 
eerie base. On the shaft is a tuft of 10 to 12 
long hairs, a little below the middle, and at the tip 
are three slender and one stout spine and the stout apical 
joint. Rotatory fans normal. The mandibles have immediately 
above the teeth-a long, stout spine with a serrated inner margin. 
The maxillae possess a pair of moderately long dorsal spines. 
The cephalic margin of the labium is arcuate, with about 23 
teeth, besides three on each lateral margin [pl.44, fig.1]. The 
epipharynx is of the usual shape, though its lateral spines are 
somewhat longer than the median [fig.6]. The hypopharynx 
has a toothed margin and eight spines, four on each side, two 
lateral lobed processes each with six fingerlike projections and 
a median piece with-a lobed margin [fig.5]. The labrum [fig.8] 
is hairy as usual, the clypeus [fig.8c] with two stout spines on 
its dorsal surface. On the gula are two trifid hairs. The 
thorax is rounded, and at the base of the larger tufts of hair 
are spurlike processes with four or five teeth projecting ceph- 
alad. The long, loosely feathered hair tufts of the thorax con- 
sist of the usual anterior transverse row, and the two lateral 
eroups [fig.3]. The hairs of the abdomen are arranged in tufts 
of about equal length, though there are fewer hairs in the pos- 
terior ones; air tube brown, of moderate length, the row of 
lateral spines on it each with from 15 to 20 spines; caudad 
of which are a few long hairs. The lateral combs of the eighth 
