MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAE OF NEW YORK STATE 367 



with conspicuous rows of long, yellowish and brown hairs. 

 Abdomen greenish yellow, finely spotted with fuscous, and with 

 larger, black, irregular spots on the posterior portion of the seg- 

 ments, and on the antepenultimate these markings form a very 

 irregular, basal band, the apical portion of the antepenultimate 

 segment bearing a pair of subdorsal, irregular, black spots ; termi- 

 nal segment with a pair of sublateral, black spots, bearing a pair 

 of straw yellow, somewhat elongate appendages. Pleura semi- 

 transparent, irregularly marked with black specks. Ventral sur- 

 face of abdomen pale greenish yellow, with irregular, black spots 

 about the middle of each segment. Halteres capitate, pedicel 

 swollen, nearly colorless; apical portion semitransparent with a 

 greenish tinge. Wings rather thickly clothed with straw yellow 

 scales, being particularly abundant on the costal and subcostal 

 veins. Petiole of first submarginal cell one third its length, that 

 of second, one fourth. Posterior cross vein less than its length 

 from mid cross vein. Legs uniform, straw yellow, rather sparsely 

 clothed with long, somewhat coarse hairs. 



Male. A specimen of this sex was bred from larvae taken in 

 a woodland pool at Earner, an adult emerging July 7. Antennae 

 thickly clothed with long, grayish yellow plumes; basal segment 

 subglobose, yellowish; other segments semitransparent, annulate 

 with brown. Palpi rather short, thickly clothed with dark brown, 

 nearly black hairs, as is also true of the labium. Eyes jet black. 

 Thorax with a slender, tapering, straw yellow, submedian stripe 

 obsolete posteriorly and margined on the posterior half of the lat- 

 eral border with dark brown. There is also a broad, lateral stripe 

 margined internally, with dark brown. Scutellum pale yellow, 

 bearing at its apex very long, brownish yellow hairs ; postscutellum 

 irregularly marked with brown. Abdomen semitransparent 

 thickly clothed with yellowish hairs and with irregular, black 

 markings at the anterior and lateral margins from the first to 

 sixth segments inclusive; several dorsal black spots on the pos- 

 terior abdominal segments. Ventral surface nearly unicolorous, 

 semitransparent, whitish. Basal segment of clasp subcylindric, 

 rather strongly curved, yellowish, and clothed with coarse, brown- 

 ish yellow hairs. Apical segment brownish, black toward the 

 tip, strongly curved. Legs nearly uniform, straw yellow, rather 

 thickly clothed with long, yellowish hairs ; ungues simple. Wings 

 pale straw yellow, veins sparsely clothed with similarly colored 

 scales; posterior fringe grayish. Petiole of first submarginal cell 

 about one third its length, that of the second nearly half its 

 length. Posterior cross vein about its own length from the mid 

 cross vein. Halteres yellowish, capitate. 



