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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



of the eyes. Proboscis evenly dark brown. Palpi in $ dark 

 brown, almost black with apical joint, base of penultimate and 

 antepenultimate joints white. Male palpi dark brown, with the 

 long hairs towards apex yellowish. Antennae dark brown in 

 the ? , paler in $ . 



" Dorsum of thorax brown, mottled at the sides with greyish 

 scales and with narrow stripes of scales of the same colour down 

 the central part ; pleura and legs same as in punctipennis, but 

 the latter not nearly so dark. Wings hyaline, with black, 

 whitish and grey scales as follows : — Costa black ; sub-costa 

 black ; radius 1 black ; a few white scales at extreme apex, and 

 some greyish ones just before the cross-vein between radius 1 

 and radius 2 ; radius 2 black, broken twice with white portions, 

 before the fork and white again at the margin ; radius 3, a large 

 portion at base black, a smaller portion black at the margin, 

 intermediate part white ; radius 4 and 5 black at the base and 

 again at the margin, greyish and whitish scales between ; media 

 1 and 2 greyish to the fork, with a small black patch at the 

 cross-vein, after the fork black at both ends, white between ; 

 media 3 black at both ends, white between ; cubitus 1 white at 

 fork, then black to a little beyond cross-vein and again at 

 margin of wing, intermediate part white ; cubitus 2 white except 

 a small black patch at margin ; anal vein white, a small black 

 portion at each end and one in the centre. 



" Abdomen as in allied species, dark brown with yellowish 

 brown hairs evenly scattered on the surface. 

 "Length. — 4 to 5 mm." 



Additional localities. — Cape May County, New Jersey, and a 

 few other localities there (Delair, Port Reading, Lahaway, etc.) ; 

 Fort Banancas, Florida ; Fort Caswell, North Carolina ; Fort 

 Du Pont, Delaware ; Fort Fremont, South Carolina ; Leon 

 Springs and Fort Ringold, Texas ; Fort Monroe, Virginia ; Fort 

 Screven, Georgia ; Jackson Barracks and Fort St. Philip, 

 Louisiana (Ludlow). 



Observations. — This species bites by day and night and is 

 eager to get indoors. It is called in America the " Daylight 

 Anopheles" 



The larva is described by Smith as follows : — " Length 5*5 to 

 6 mm. ; colour dirty greyish-brown, a white dorsal stripe may 

 be present in living specimens. Maculation of vertex variable. 

 Second segment of antenna is shorter and does not taper as in 

 allied species, but is blunt with two long spines serrated on one 



