700 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



AEDES CANTATOR (Coquillett) Dyar & Knab. 



Oulex sp. ? (Salt marsh), Smith, Ent. News, xill, 301, pi. xv, f. 12, 1902. 



Culex cantans Dyar (not Melgen), Proc. Bnt. Soc. Wash., v, 47, 1902. 



Culex cantator Coqulllett, Can. Ent., xxxv, 255, 1903. 



Culex cantator Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Stat., Bull. 171, 22, 1904, 



Culex cantator Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 293, 1904. 



Culicada cantator Pelt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 3916, 1904. 



Culex cantator Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Bnt. Soc, xiil, 28, 1905. 



(JrabJiamia cantator Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vli, 48, 1905. 



Culex cantator Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Stat., Kept. Mosq., 231, 1905. 



Culex cantator Britton & Vlereck, Rept. Conn. Agr. Exp. Stat., 1904, 268, 272, 273, 



1905. 

 Culex cantator Blanchard, Les Mousticiues, 629, 1905. 

 Culicada cantator Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 476, 1905. 

 Aedes cantator Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 200, 1906. 

 Ochlerotatua cantator Coqulllett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 20, 1906. 

 Ochlerotatus cantator Dyar, TJ. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular 72, 5, 1906. 

 Culex cantator Smith, Can. Bnt., xxxlx, 119, 1907. 

 Culicada cantator Theobald, Mon. Culic, Iv, 334, 1907. 



Culex (Ochlerotatus) cantator Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 471, 1908. 

 Culicada cantator Theobald, Mon. CuUc, v, 301, 1910. 

 Aedes cantator Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 718, 1910. 



Oeioinai, Descbiption of Culex cantator: 



Female. Near sylvestris, but the seventh abdominal segment almost wholly 

 yellow scaled, etc. Head blacl^ oral margin and base of antennse yellow, remainder 

 of antennse and the proboscis black, palpi brown. Its scales chiefly concolorous, no 

 cluster of white hairs or scales at their apices; narrow scales of middle of occiput 

 golden yellow, the upright ones chiefly black, sides of occiput covered with depressed 

 whitish scales and with a small cluster of black ones; thorax reddish brown, scales 

 of mesonotum golden yellow, becoming pale yellow in front of the scutellum and on 

 the pleura; abdomen black, its scales black, except a crossband of yellowish white 

 ones at base of each segment, the bands considerably narrowed at the middle, similar 

 scales scattered over the sixth and nearly the whole of the seventh segment and 

 along apices of the two preceding segments; legs yellow basally, becoming brown on 

 the tibiae and tarsi, scales of femora chiefly pale yellow, of the tibiae mostly black, 

 those on the hind side pale yellow, on the bases of the tarsal joints whitish, those on 

 the second joint of the hind tarsi covering about one-fourth the length of the joint, 

 front tarsal claws toothed; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins long and narrow, 

 hind crossvein nearly its length from the small crossvein, petiole of first submarginal 

 cell from one-half to four-flfths as long as the cell; length 4 mm. One specimen 

 bred May 6, by Mr. LaRue Holmes. 



Habitat. — Summit, New Jersey. 



I have also examined 8 females and as many males, bred by Prof. J. B. Smith, from 

 the salt-marshes of New Jersey. In the male the scales of the palpi are black, those 

 of the under side and at bases of the last two joints yellowish white, no whitish band 

 at base of the antepenult joint. 



Prof. Smith Informs me that the larva is readily separated from that of sylvestris. 



Descbiption of Female, Male, and Labva of AIsdes cantator: 



Female. — Proboscis moderately slender, subcylindrical, the labellas conically 

 tapered; vestiture brownish black; setse minute, curved, black, those on the 

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

 the proboscis, black scaled, the tip minutely white ; setae rather short, black. 

 Antennae with the distal joints longer than the basal ones, rugose, pilose, black ; 

 second joint thickened, pale at base ; tori subspherieal, with a cup-shaped apical 

 excavation, pale yellow witjiout, blackish within. Clypeus shortly conical, 

 prominent, blackish-brown, nude. Byes brownish-black. Occiput blackish, 

 broadly clothed with narrow, curved scales, in the middle pale ocherous, on the 

 sides pale brown, intermixed with many erect, slender forked scales, some black, 

 some pale ; cheeks dirty white, with a small, triangular black patch well up the 

 side at eye-margin ; setse along the margins of the eyes black, a tuft of golden 

 yellow ones projecting forward between the eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed with narrow, luteous 

 brown scales and black bristles. Mesonotum dark brown, uniformly clothed 



