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A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Length. — 5 to 6 mm. 



$ . Palpi black, unbanded, hair-tufts black, dense on the 

 two last segments, the apical segment bluntly acuminate, a little 

 shorter than the penultimate. 



Thorax and abdomen as in the $ . 



Legs as in 9 ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both uniserrate, 

 hind equal and simple. 



"Wings with the scales slightly broader than in the $ I ^ ne first 

 sub-marginal longer and narrower than the second posterior, its 

 base nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than half the length 

 of the cell ; stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the 



Fig. 199. 

 Labial plate of C, territans. Walker. (After Felt.) 



cell ; posterior cross- vein longer than the mid, nearly three times 

 its own length distant from it. 



Genitalia with the basal lobe stout, obliquely truncate ; 

 clasper curved, rather broad, with an apical lateral spine, 

 notched at the tip ; the lateral process of the basal lobe has two 

 broad long spines, one curved at the tip, the other ending 

 broadly truncated, and some shorter acute spines (foliate plate ?) ; 

 harpes of moderate length, curved apically, and adorned with 

 short finger-like processes at apex ; harpogones thick, keel-like, 

 ending acutely, with teeth on one side of the end. 



(Felt describes the claspers as being rather slender, tapering, 

 with a rather long, slender, articulate, terminal spine.) 



Length. — 5 to 5 * 5 mm. 



Habitat. — New Jersey (J. B. Smith, etc.) ; New York State 

 (E. P. Felt) ; Connecticut (H. L. Viereck). 



