Genus Culicada. 



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The larva varies from J to § of an inch long, and is brownish- 

 black in colour. Antennae white, tipped with black, almost half 

 as long as the head, thickest near the base and tapering slightly 

 to about the middle, then curved inwards to a blunt point ; a tuft 

 of 6 to 10 hairs just beyond the middle. Comb consists of 

 patches of 25 to 30 spatulate spine-tipped scales bearing fine 



Fig. 131. 



Culicada aurifer. Coquillett. 



a, Antenna ; b, terminal segments and siphon ; c, spines of pecten ; 

 d, labial plate ; e, spine of comb (after Smith). 



setae. Pecten of air tube consisting of 14 to 20 small slender 

 spines with two to five serrations near their bases. 



Felt places it in his genus Culicelsa, but it is clearly quite 

 distinct from the type of that genus (taeniorhynchus, Wied.), and 

 on the other hand is closely related in all characters to cantans, 

 Mg., and certainly comes in the genus Culicada. 



Culicada pretans. Grossbeck (1904). 

 Culex pretans. Grossbeck. 



Ento. News, p. 332, Dec. (1904) ; Mosq. N. Jersey, p. 291 (1904), Smith. 



Head brown with pale creamy scales ; proboscis and palpi 

 dark brown. Thorax ornamented with bright rich brown and 

 VOL. iv. 2 A 



