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teeth, followed by a multiple tuft. Lateral plate of eighth segment large, 

 elliptical, with comb of six to eight teeth along its posterior border. Anal 

 segment longer than wide, ringed by the plate; plate spinose along posterior 

 border; dorsal tuft of five long hairs on each side; lateral tuft small, multiple; 

 ventral brush confined to barred area, rather small and sparse; anal giUs short, 

 equal, rather slender and with blunt tips. 



Mr. Taylor has found the larva in Cuba most plentiful in September. He 

 found them principally in small collections of clear, still water in conjunction 

 with " Culex " and Anopheles. The eggs " are brownish in color, and are de- 

 posited on the surface of water in a manner similar to those of Culex pipiens, 

 that is in a boat shaped mass, but both the group and the individual eggs are 

 smaller. They average about 50 to 75 in a group." Mr. Taylor further remarks : 

 " It is evidently a rural insect, and our observations would indicate that it is of 

 very little annoyance to human beings. We have been unable to get it to bite ia 

 confinement. The minimum period of development from egg to mosquito was 

 eight and a half days." 



Mr. Jennings found the larvae in shallow pools containing algse in open grassy 

 situations. Theobald quotes Dr. Low as saying : " The pool already mentioned 

 near the cemetery in St. Lucia and small water holes in a meadow behind Kings- 

 town, St. Vincent, were the breeding-groimd of this species." Theobald further 

 quotes Mr. Hewlett of Trinidad as saying that the adults bite severely, but the 

 statement remains unconfirmed and is probably erroneous. 



Tropical America, including the Antilles. 



Havana, Cuba, October 3, 1901 (J. Carroll) ; Havana, Cuba, November 1, 

 1902 (J. R. Taylor) ; Kingston, Jamaica (M. Grabham) ; Laventille, Trinidad 

 (P. W. Urieh) ; Las Cascadas, Canal Zone, Panama, May 18, 1907 (A. Busck) ; 

 La Boca, Canal Zone, Panama, November 19, 1907 (A. H. Jennings) ; Aneon, 

 Canal Zone, Panama (A. H. Jennings) ; Culebra, Canal Zone, Panama, April 

 3, 1908 (A. H. Jennings) ; Miraflores, Canal Zone, Panama, December 10, 

 1908 (A. H. Jennings) ; Georgetown, British Guiana (E. D. Eowland) ; Ber- 

 bice, British Guiana, November 13, 1906 (J. Aiken). Reported also from St. 

 Vincent and St. Lucia, West Indies and Pari, Brazil (Theobald) ; city of Sao 

 Paulo and Maceio, State of Alagoas, Brazil (PeryassH). 



DKANOTiENIA CONTINENTALIS Dyar & Knab. 

 Uranotwnia continentalis Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Sec, xiv, 186, 187, 1906. 

 Obiginal Desceiption of Ueanot^nia continentalis : 



Sent to Miss Mitchell by Dr. Dupree from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and identified 

 as " Vranotwnia lowii Theob." The characters are indicated in the table. 



The following is an abstract of the table : 



1. Antennae with scattered spines; longest terminal seta shorter than 



antenna 2 



2. Terminal setae four 4 



4. Antennae with the hair beyond the basal third continentalis 



Descbiption of Female and Labva of XJbanotjBnia continentalis (Male Unknown) : 

 Female. — Proboscis rather long and slender, apical third much swollen, setse 

 rather coarse ; vestiture of dark bronzy-brown scales. Palpi very short, brown- 

 scaled and with a few coarse bristles. Clypeus prominent, conical, constricted 

 at base, brown, shining, nude. Antennae filiform, the joints subequal, brown, 

 very coarsely but rather sparsely ciliate; hairs of whorls sparse, rather long, 

 black; tori globose, with an apical excavation, brown and yellowish, strongly 

 white-pruinose. Occiput clothed with broad appressed scales, those on the 



