Genus Culicada. 351 



species. The male ungues are very marked. It clearly comes 

 in Felt's new genus Culicada. 



Culicada aurifer. Coquillett (1903). 

 CuUselsa aurifer. Coquillett. 

 Culex aurifer. Coquillett. 



Canad. Entomo. XXXV., p. 255 (1903), Coquillett (Culex aurifer) ; Mosq. 

 N. Jersey, p. 298 (1904), Smith ; Bull. 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus.,p. 336 

 (1904), Felt (CuUselsa aurifer). 



Head deep brown with golden scales, especially in the middle : 

 proboscis deep brown unhanded. Thorax deep brown in the 

 middle with a broad golden scaled line on each side and traces of 

 two thin golden scaled lines on the brown area behind. 

 Abdomen deep brown, yellow, with large basal lateral creamy 

 spots which may spread out into bands. Legs deep brown 

 unbanded. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with narrow-curved brown 

 scales except in the middle where they are golden-yellow, flat 

 lateral scales golden, then black ; golden bristles project between 

 the eyes, dark ones at the sides and there are many dark upright 

 forked scales ; clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep brown ; antennae 

 deep brown, basal segment deep brown with a few pale hairs, 

 base of second segment bright testaceous. 



Thorax black clothed with narrow-curved scales of a rich 

 bronzy-brown in the middle, golden-yellow at the sides, forming- 

 two prominent broad lateral lines; there are traces of two 

 narrow golden scaled lines on the dark area behind and many 

 golden scales in front of the scutellum, also traces of the two 

 narrow lines seen in front, bristles brown and golden-yellow ; 

 scutellum brown with narrow-curved golden scales and brown 

 border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae deep brown 

 with patches of dense flat creamy white scales and small pale 

 golden hairs. 



Abdomen deep brown with violet reflections, basal creamy 

 yellow lateral spots which often spread across the whole width 

 of the segments \ venter creamy white. 



Legs deep brown, unbanded, femora pale above and below, 

 a few dark scales scattered about above, a small dark area near 

 apex, extreme apex creamy white ; ungues equal, all uniserrated. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell considerably longer 

 and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases 



