328 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



The larvae occur in woodland poo]s and springs in early spring, 

 according to Professor J. B. Smith, in company with those of 

 C. canadensis. 



Smith states (p. 243) that the larvae favour the deeper pools, 

 and feed and hide amongst dead leaves on the bottom, but the 

 pupae are always at the surface. 



CULICADA ABFITCHII. Felt (1905). 



Culex abfitchii. Felt (nom. nud.) (1904). 

 Culex siphonalis. Grossbeck (?). 



20th Kept. St. Ent. Bull. 97, Ent. 24, N. Y. St. Mus. (1905) ; Mosquitoes of 

 N. Y. St. Bull. 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus., p. 381 (1904) {nom. nud.). 



Head pale golden yellow with black and a few pale upright 

 forked scales ; proboscis dark with scattered pale scales. Thorax 

 densely clothed with golden brown scales, with two lateral pale 

 lines most pronounced behind. Abdomen deep brown with basal 

 pale bands, which may expand laterally or medianally. Wings 

 with mottled scales. Legs brown with scattered pale scales and 

 basal white bands. 



9 . Head brown clothed with narrow-curved pale golden 

 yellow to creamy scales, flat pale golden, then black lateral ones, 

 black upright forked scales with a few pale ones in front ; the 

 curved scales of the mid area and back of the occiput broader 

 and paler than the others, the former pass well between the eyes, 

 and a few pale golden bristles also project forwards, brown ones 

 on the rest of the head ; proboscis and palpi blackish brown with 

 scattered pale scales ; antennae brown, basal segment bright 

 testaceous with a few small flat creamy and black scales, the 

 latter also occur on the second segment. 



Thorax deep brown clothed with rich golden brown narrow- 

 curved scales, a sub-median line on each side of pale creamy scales 

 most marked on the posterior half and forming a mass in front 

 of the scutellum, these pale scales are also prominent at the sides 

 of the thorax and thickly clothe the scutellum \ chaetae golden 

 and brown, the former notably over the roots of the wings \ 

 pleurae ochreous to pale brown with dense flat white scales ; 

 metanotum bright pale brown. 



Abdomen deep brown with pale creamy to white basal bands 

 which spread out laterally, often extending all along the sides of 

 the segments, penultimate segment with pale apical scales, apical 



