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outer .rounded and serrate along margins, the inner elliptical, serrate on outey 

 margin, serration terminating in a large tooth at tip close to the articulated 

 terminal spine. Harpes with a long, slender inner branch which is bent at tip 

 and bears a row of teeth. Harpagonea divided into a number of plates. 



Larva, Stage IV (plate 113, fig. 382). — Head trans-verse, much broader than 

 long, subquadrate, strongly convex at the eyes. Antennae long, rather stout, 

 a tuft at outer third, part beyond slender. Upper pair of dorsal head- 

 hairs double, short, lower pair single, long; ante-antennal tufts multiple. Body 

 with skin glabrous ; lateral hairs in threes on third to sixth abdominal segments. 

 Comb of eighth segment of about twelve spines in a single, curved row, lower- 

 most spines a little dislocated. Air-tube scarcely three times as long as wide, 

 tapering outwardly, slightly curved forward on apical portion; terminal hooks 

 large, with median tooth; eight tufts of long hairs along posterior margiu, 

 reaching from near base to apex, double at base, multiple at apex; peeten of 

 long teeth, reaching beyond basal third of tube. Anal segment longer than 

 wide, ringed by the plate; dorsal tuft of three unequal hairs on each side; 

 ventral brush well developed, confined by the chitinous ring. Anal gills large, 

 stout, tapering to rounded tips, equal. 



The larvae live in temporary pools, according to Dr. Grabham's note. He 

 says : " The usual position of the larva was on its back at the bottom of the jar or 

 hooked up on the sides by its siphon. It apparently never rose to the surface 

 except just before pupating." 



Island of Jamaica, West Indies. 



Kingston (M. Grabham). 



CULEX FLORIDANUS (Dyar & Knab). 

 Mochlostyrax fioridanus Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 171, 1906. 

 Obioinai. Desceiption of Mochlostybax ixobidanus: 



The larva falls In the table (Journ. N. Y. E!nt. Soc, xiv, 223, 1906), with pilosus 

 D. & K., but the body is glabrous. Head broad and squarely transverse, eyes 

 bulging, a large notch at insertion of antennae; clypeus shallowly emarglnate with 

 two spines; antennae long, a small notch at outer third bearing the long hair tuft; 

 the two longest of the apical spines placed before apex. Both head hairs single, 

 small, a third hair below, anteantennal tuft large, multiple. Lateral abdominal hairs 

 in twos on the third to sixth segments. Comb of the eighth segment of 12 scales in 

 a strongly curved, single, rather irregular row. Air tube three and a half times as 

 long as wide, roundedly tapered on the posterior side, with a pair of hooks at tip; 

 eight long tufts on the posterior margin in a straight row, two of them within the 

 peeten; two small lateral tufts. Tufts behind the comb large. Anal segment longer 

 than wide, ringed; ventral brush moderate, dorsal tuft few haired. Anal gills rather 

 long, the upper pair considerably shorter than the lower ones. 



LarvEB from Bstero, Florida (J. B. VanDuzee) ; no adults. 



Tj/pe.— Cat. No. 10,025, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



This may be a synonym of M. jamaicensis Grabham (Can. Ent., xxxviii, 318, 1906). 

 Dr. Grabham has kindly sent us larvae and they agree very closely with our fioridanus. 

 We consider them conspeclflc. However, Dr. Grabham gives several differential 

 points in his description, and, as whole larva: are sent us, not Isolations, there is a 

 chance that a mixture of species occurred. 



Desceiption of Femaxe and Labva or Culex flobidanus (Male Unknown) : 



Female. — Proboscis moderate, swollen at tip, labellse conically tapered ; vesti- 

 ture black with a bronzy reflection ; setae minute, curved, black, those on labellse 

 more prominently outstanding. Palpi short, one-fifth as long as proboscis, 

 black, with a few outstanding setae at base. Antennae moderate ; joints subequal, 

 rugose, pilose, blackish, second joint a little longer than third; tori subspherical, 

 with a cup-shaped apical excavation, luteous, shading to brown within ; hairs of 

 whorls sparse, moderate, black. Clypeus rounded triangular, convex, brown, 

 nude. Eyes black. Occiput blackish, clothed with broad, flat, black scales with a 



