478 MOSQUITOES OP NOETH AMERICA 



CULISETA INCIDENS (Thomson) Felt 



Culex incidens Thomson, Kongl. Sven. EYeg. Eugenies Resa, vi. Dipt, 443, 1868. 



Culex incidens Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 329, 1900. 



Culex nigripes Theobald (in part, not Zetterstedt), Mon. Culic, ii, 93, 1901. 



Culex nigripes Giles (in part, not Zetterstedt), Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 444, 1902. 



Culex particeps Adams, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., ser. 2, il, 26, 1903. 



Theo'baldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, ill, 151, 1903. 



TJieotaldia incidens Theobald, Can. Ent., xxxv, 311, 1903. 



OrabUamia vittata Theobald (in part). Can. Ent., xxxv, 313, 315, 1903. 



Culex incidens Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, 38, 1904. 



Culiseta incidens PeU, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391c, 1904. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Gen. Ins., 26me Fasc, 23, 1905. 



Theoialdinella incidens Blanchard, Les Moust., 393, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Aldrich, Cat N. Am. Dipt, 126, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Dyar, Joum. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 24, 55, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Felt, Bull., 97, N. Y. State Mus., 480, 1905. 



Theobaldia incidens Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent, Tech. Ser. 11, 22, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Dyar, V. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular No. 72, 4, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Quayle, Univ. Cal. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bull. 178, 45, 1906. 



Culiseta incidens Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 203, 1906. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 279, 1907. 



Culex particeps Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 279, 1907. 



Culiseta incidens Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxli, 122, 1907. 



Theobaldia incidens Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 275, 1910. 



OtaoiNAi, Desceiption of Cttlex incidens : 



Fuscus, opacus, abdomine nigro segmentis albo-marginatis, pedibus nigricantibus, 

 cdxis femoribusque albidis, his apice lineaque superne nigra; alls nervis transversis 

 ordinario et brachial! incidentibus, subhyalinis fascia pone medium pellucida. $. 

 Long. 5 mill. 



Patria: California. 



Statura omnino praecedentis [Culex camptorhynchus Thomson, ex Sydney], pro- 

 boscide recta, abdomine albo-annulato, colore pedum et nervo transverso ordinario 

 cum transverso brachial! In linea eadem vertical! slto mox distinctus; fuscus opacus. 

 Caput ovato-orbiculare, thorace angustius, pills suberectis parce vestitum fuscum, 

 oculis magnis subrenatis, f route fere conniventibus, vertice convexo, brunneo; palpis 

 fuscis, proboscide abdominis longitudine, recta, tenui, filiform! fusca. Antennae 

 fuscae, scutell! apicem baud attingentes, articulis pills erectis panels verticillatis, 

 l:mo magno, subgloboso, 2:o 3:o longiore. Thorax oblongus, compressus latltu- 

 dine sua duplo altior, dorso convexo; pronotum superne baud discretum; mesonotum 

 apice producto, linels dorsalibus nuUis, fuscum pills subsquamosis fulvescentibus 

 submarmoratum, pleuris densius albido-squamosis; scutellum breve, transversum, 

 linea basal! distincta transversim impressa, apice pills porrectls pluribus ornatum; 

 postscutellum subdeclive fusco-brunneum, subglabrum, opacum, has! carinula ab- 

 brevlata. Alae abdominis longitudine, hyalinae, lobo distincto, alula longe ciliata, 

 margine Inferiore nervisque pllis adpressis, caducis brunneis instructis, cubital! et 

 brachial! ante furcas subglabris quo fascia transversa pone medium formata; medi- 

 astlno in tertia alae parte costam attingente, postcosta in apice excurrente, cubital! 

 paullo pone medium egredlente, ante nervum transversum ordlnarium et furca dense 

 squamuloso, furca brachial! quam cubital! paullo breviore infra apicem alae mar- 

 glnem petente, nervo transverso ordinario et brachial! In eodem puucto Incidentibus; 

 humerall In medio alae furcato, furca marginem inferiorem attingente, nervis 

 spuriis utrinque clrcumsepto; anal! in medio alae marginem inferiorem petente, 

 axlll&r! obsoletissimo. 



Halteres obscure-testaceae. Abdomen thorace fere duplo longius, paullo angus- 

 tius, subdepressum, alte supra coxas posticas Insertum, basi utrinque densius et 

 longius albido-piloBulum, segmentis 2-6 longitudine aequalibus, parce pilosis, sub- 

 transversis, nigris opacis, margine postico pills adpressis subquamosis albidis ves- 

 tltis. Pedes elongatl, gracillimi, coxls albidis, apice contiguis, longitudine inter se 

 aequalibus; femora et tibiae pilis erectis parce ornata, longitudine aequalia, abdo- 

 mine baud breviora, subfiliformia, baud clavata, fusco-nlgra; ilia apice et margine 

 inferiore alblda; tarsls elongatis, articulis l:mo tibia vix breviore, 2-6 sensim longi- 

 tudine decrescentibus, 5:o 4:o fere duplo breviore, ungulcuUs parvls, pulvilUs viz 

 ulUs. 



