MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAE OF NEW YORK STATE 323 



Description. Mwk. Probosicis long, curved, yellowish, specked 

 with black, tip jet black. Palpi fou'r segmented, longer than the 

 proboscis, not plumose; basal segment globose, second sparsely^ 

 third moderately, fourth and fifth rather thickly clothed with 

 small, brown, appressed scales, a few longer, black, ventral 

 setae on the apical portion of the third and fourth segments. 

 Antennae black, basal segment reddish, subglobular; others 

 ringed with white and bearing basal whorls of long^ black hairs, 

 except the two apical ones, which are very long, slender and 

 sparsely clothed with yellowish white plumes. Eyes greenish, 

 deeply ennairginate. Occiput sparsely clothed with golden yellow 

 scales, a. distinet line occurring along the postenior margin of 

 the eye'Si, forming a median tuft. Prothorax with distinct 

 median and sublateral black lines, sparsely clothed with short, 

 golden yellow scales, slightly thicker on each sidle of the black 

 lines, lateral portions bearing longer, black setae. Pleura 

 sparsely clothed with short, yellowish scales. Scutellum rather 

 prominent, irregularly fuscous, bearing long^ yellowish setae; 

 postscutellum naked, yellowish, rounded. Halteres: basal por- 

 tion irregularly expanded, yellowish, transparent, apical part 

 capitate, fusooais. Abdomen brown, mottled dorsal ly with dark 

 brown, nearly black scales; laterally there is an indistinct row 

 of yellowish scales ; antepenultimate segment irregularly mottled 

 with yellowish scales. Ventral surface suffused with orange yel- 

 low scales. Coxae clothed with golden yellow scales; femora 

 yellowLsh beneath, dark brown above, rather thickly mottled with 

 yellowish scales. Tibiae and tarsi black, except that the former 

 are sparsely mottled with silvery white scales. Ungues of fore 

 and mid legs unequal, one claw bidentate, the other unidentate, 

 posterior claws simple. Wings hyaline, sparsely clothed with 

 brownish scales ; fringe slaty gray ; posterior cross vein less than 

 its own length from mid cross vein; petiole of first submarginal 

 cell about two thir'ds the length of the cell, that of the second 

 about three fourths. 



A rather large mosquito measuring about 5 mm, wing spread, 

 about 10 mm. 



Female. Antennae dark brown, sparsely ornamented with very 

 fine, yellowish white scales, and with short basal whorls of long, 

 black hairs; basal segment subglobose with an inner patch of 

 whitish scales. Proboscis longer than the abdomen, light brown, 

 tipped with dark brown and ornamented laterally and ventrally 

 with whitish or yellowish scales. Palpi short, brown, second 

 joint and apex of terminal segment rather thickly clothed 

 with yellowish white scales. Eyes coa'rsely granulate, dark 

 green. Occiput rather densely clothed with yellowish scales. 



