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near the base. The labial plate is also seen to be very distinct 

 (vide figures), each side has three or four teeth, the anterior 

 margin with seventeen to twenty-three teeth in all evenly shaped. 



The anal gills are long, not pointed, and with circular spots 

 scattered over their surface. 



The eggs are similar to those of Culex pipiens. No superficial 

 differences can be detected in the egg rafts. 



The larvae were found in the water of an ornamental vase as 

 late as October in Lahaway in New Jersey by Mr. Brakeley. 



Culex stoehri. n. sp. 



Head brown, paler in the middle and around the eyes ; 

 proboscis unbanded. Thorax brown, ornamented with rather 

 dull golden-brown scales, and showing three darker longitudinal 

 stripes on the basal half of the mesonotum, the middle the 

 longest. Abdomen brown with basal creamy curved patches and 

 a few scattered pale scales. Legs deep brown, unbanded. 



9 . Head deep brown with narrow-curved pale creamy scales, 

 especially dense around the eyes, with creamy upright forked 

 scales in the middle, deep brown ones at the sides, and flat creamy 

 lateral scales (the dark upright forked scales give the head a 

 brown appearance when viewed with a lens). Palpi brown with 

 scattered pale scales and a few long bristles basally ; clypeus 

 deep brown ; proboscis deep brown, labellae pa]e ; eyes coppery 

 red and gold ; antennae brown, basal segment paler, base of 

 second segment bright ochreous. 



Thorax deep brown clothed irregularly with golden narrow- 

 curved scales, a narrow bare median line, scales paler at the sides 

 and in front of the scutellum, the three darker areas seen with a 

 hand lens do not show under the two-thirds power, but the scales 

 there are fewer, narrower, and seem somewhat darker and 

 differently disposed, chaetae deep brown to golden-brown, dense 

 over the roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes large with narrow- 

 curved pale creamy scales and similar hued chaetae to the 

 mesonotum ; scutellum deep brown with pale golden narrow- 

 curved scales and deep brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep 

 brown ; pleurae black with patches of small flat grey scales and 

 groups of short pale golden hairs. 



Abdomen deep brown with violet reflections, semicircular 

 basal creamy spots and grey basal lateral spots ; posterior 

 border-bristles pale brown, venter mostly pale scaled. 



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