1010 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMEEICA 



Anopheles punctipennis Knab, Psyche, xiv, 1, 1907. 



Anopheles perplexens Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxlx, 267, 1907. 



Anopheles perplexens Dyar & Knab, Can. Ent, xl, 312, 1908. 



Anopheles punctipennis Vlereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 469, 1908. 



Anopheles perplexens Ludlow, Can. Ent, xli, 21, 1909. 



Anopheles perplexens Dyar & Knab, Can. Ent, ^i, 101, 1909. 



Anopheles perplexens = punctipennis Ludlow, Can. Ent., xli, 293, 1909. 



Anopheles punctipennis Thibault, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xil, 22, 1910. 



Anopheles punctipennis Theobald, Mon. Cullc, v, 7, 1910. 



Anopheles perplexens Theobald, Mon. Cullc, v, 7, 1910. 



Anopheles punctipennis Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 716, 1910. 



Anopheles punctipennis Cora A. Smith, Psyche, xxl, 1, 1914. 



Original Descbiption or Culex punctipennis: 



Body dark rufous, covered with clnereo-ferruginous hair; feet elongated; wings 

 maculated. 



Inhabits the United States. 



OrMts, bright cinereous; eyes deep black; antennae and proboscis deep fuscous 

 or blackish immaculate; thorax dark rufous, with obsolete blackish lines, and covered 

 with cinereo-ferruginous hair; wings hairy, dusky with a hardly perceptible pale 

 band beyond the middle, and obsolete dusky spots; scutel glabrous, dark rufous, with 

 a longitudinal bluish vitta; halteres yellow at base; feet elongated, deep fuscous or 

 blackish; pectus each side above the posterior feet plumbeous. 



It is probable this is the species which Fabr. considers as the same with the 

 pulicaris of Europe; it Is common on the Mississippi, and troublesome to travellers. 

 When the insect is at rest, the wings being incumbent one on the other, the pale 

 band is very distinct; when recent, the eyes are greenish-blue. I observed this 

 species in considerable numbers on the Eastern shore of Maryland. The dusky 

 spots on the wings of this species, are occasioned by the thicker growth of hair in 

 those parts. 



Obiginai. Descbiption of Culex hyemalis: 



Thorax cinereous, with a broad black vitta on each side; extreme tips of the 

 wings and two spots on their anterior margins black, with two intervening sericeous 

 yellowish-white spots. 



Length 0.22; to the tips of the wings 0.28, or including the beak 0.39. 



Head cinereous-pubescent, occiput black-pubescent. Proboscis black, its apex 

 cinereous. Palpi black, the tips varied with gray. Antennae black, tips brown. 

 Thorax cinereous-pubescent, with a broad rufous-black vitta on each side, passing 

 above the wing-sockets; the vitta often edged on its upper side with yellowish-white; 

 a very slender, black, dorsal line, often partially obsolete. Scutel glabrous, dark 

 brown. Poisers black, their pedicels white. Abdomen clothed with longish gray 

 hairs, black or dark brown, with two rows of whitish spots on each side; in the 

 males obscure white, the posterior margins of the segments black. Wings subhyaline, 

 with two blackish spots on the anterior margin, separated by a conspicuous glossy 

 yellowish-white spot; inner spot with a strong notch on its posterior side which is 

 formed by a yellowish-white dot, and a similar dot is placed on the inner side of 

 this spot; outer spot with an oblique yellowish-white band on its outer side, beyond 

 which, at the tip of the wing, is a slight blackish transverse spot. Under a magni- 

 fier, these spots are found to be produced by the colors of the scales upon the nerves 

 of the wings, which scales are regularly and beautifully dyed with black and 

 yellowish white, as follows: The posterior or anal nerve has black scales the last 

 half of its entire length, and also at its base: the next or interno-medial nerve, 

 which forks in its middle. Is clothed throughout with black scales, including both 

 its branches : the next or externo-medial has black scales on the basal fourth of its 

 length, two broad annuli of black scales on its middle, another annulus at its fork, 

 and a fifth series at the tips of each of its branches; the next is clothed with black 

 scales through Its entire length: the next is black where it first becomes plainly 

 visible in the middle of the wing, again for a short distance after the origin of the 

 preceding nerve, again for a considerable space at its fork, and again at the apex 

 of Its posterior branch only: the costal and the marginal nerves have black scales 

 from their bases; these become much more dense at the bla,ck spots of the anterior 

 margin, and are replaced by yellowish scales only between these spots and beyond 

 the entire one. Legs black; femurs pale towards their bases; tips of femurs and of 

 tibiae whitish. Coxae pale. 



The Winter Musketoe is met with in the last days of autumn and again for a 

 short time In the first days of spring, and specimens are occasionally found in any 

 of the winter months. It is a somewhat rare insect, which no one can fail to dis- 

 tinguish clearly by the marks on its wings as above described. 



