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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



sent me by Felt, Ludlow and Glenn-Herrick. It is very marked, 

 the silvery-white sides to the grey dorsum of thorax, black 

 abdomen with lateral white spots and dark unbanded legs at 

 once separating it. 



It is essentially a sylvan species, and winters in the egg stage 

 either at the bottom of water, or in depressions where water will 

 collect in spring. 



It comes in a new genus near Macleaya. One specimen sent 

 me by Professor Glenn-Herrick shows the scutellar scales rather 

 dusky. 



Prof. J. B. Smith (p. 274) first records it in June in the 

 adult stage, and on as late as October in New Jersey. It 

 bites hard and very readily, and comes into porches of houses 

 surrounded by trees. Although common it is not considered 

 a pest. 



The larva is about 8 mm. long, but may reach 10 mm. ; colour 

 brownish or greyish with dark head and siphon ; antennae long 



Fig. 78. 



Protomacleaya tri&eriata. Say. 



Larval characters. 



a and b, Variations of labial plate ; c, terminal segments and siphon ; d, antenna ; 

 e, siphon spines ; f, scale of 8th segment (after Smith). 



and straight, not spiny, one long lateral hair just near the 

 middle, apex with one long and two short spines, and a small 



