94 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



the outer third of second and all of the third and fourth joints white on outer 

 side. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3.5 mm. ; wing 3.3 mm. 



Male. — Proboscis long and slender, tip hardly expanded. Palpi short, one- 

 seventh as long as proboscis. Antennae similar to those of the female, the joints 

 subequal, the hairs of the whorls longer than in the female, with small secondary 

 subapical whorls on the joints. Coloration as in the female. Abdomen elongate, 

 subcylindricaJ, expanded towards tip, with many coarse terminal bristles. Legs 

 colored as in the female. Wings slightly narrower than in the female, the 

 venation similar. Mid tarsi with a single large claw; claw formula, O.O-O.-O.O. 



Length: Body aboiit 3.5 mm.; wing 3.3 mm. 



Genitalia (plate 4, fig. 17) : Side-pieces conical, the tips slenderly tapered and 

 bent downward. Three long sette near the base. Clasp-filament with a short, 

 stout stem which has a constriction on one side near the base, tip expanded and 

 divided into three lobes ; mid lobe short, rounded, smooth ; inner lobe slender, 

 smooth, bent, its tip divided into two digits ; outer lobe expanded, long, elliptical, 

 bearing a row of spines and crested by a small triangular expansion. Harpes 

 small, narrow, the tips bent and dentate. Unci inconspicuous. Basal append- 

 ages of two stout spines on each side. 



Mr. Jennings bred the species from larvae in bromelias on a fallen tree, but 

 unfortunately made no isolations. The adults fly by day. 



Panama to southern Mexico. 



Sonsonate, Salvador, August 19, 1905, adult captured (F. Knab) ; Santa 

 Lucreeia, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 31, 1905, adult captured (P. Knab) ; 

 Empire, Canal Zone, Panama, March 3, 1909, larvas in bromelias (A. H. 

 Jennings). 



WYEOMYIA SMITHII (Coquillett) Felt. 



Culex pungens Smith (not Wiedemann), in Howard, Mosq., 83-90, 1901. 

 Aedes fuscus Howard (not Osten Sacken), Mosquitoes, 153, 1901. 



Smith, Ent. News, xli, 93, 125, 1901. 



Culex pungens Smith (not Wiedemann), Ent. News, xil, 153, 1901. 



Aedes fuscus and Aedes sappMrinus Smith (not Osten Sacken), Ent. News, xU, 189, 



220, 1901. 

 Aedes smitMi Coquillett, Can. Ent., xxxlil, 260, 1901. 

 Aedes smitMi Smith (in part), Ent. News, xli, 254, 1901. 

 Aedes smithii Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soe., Ix, 178, 1901. 

 Aedes smitMi Smith, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, x, 10, 1902. 

 Aedes smitMi Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 51, 1902. 

 Aedes smitMi Johannsen, Bull. 68, N. Y. State Mus., 425, 1903. 

 Aedes (Verrallina ?) smitMi Theobald, Mon. Culic, ill, 295, 1903. 

 Aedes smitMi Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 341, 1904. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391e, 1904. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 342, 1905. 

 Aedes smitM Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 403, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 23, 53, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Mitchell, Can. Ent., xxxvii, 332, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 446, 493, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 69, 1905. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 227, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. No. 11, 27, 1906. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular 72, 1, 1906. 



Jarvls, Can. Ent., xxxviil, 7, 1906. 



Dendromyia smitMi Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 608, 1907. 

 Dendromyia smitM Peryassfl (in part), Os Culic. do Brazil, 56, 309, 1908. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 471, 1908. 

 Dendromyia smitMi Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, v, 588, 1910. 

 Wyeomyia smitMi Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 721, 1910. 



