Genus Aedes, 



539 



to dark slate-grey, head yellow with dark spots, one crescent- 

 shaped, and other small dots on vertex \ antennae moderately 

 long, slender, lateral tuft well below middle, composed of 5 to 

 6 hairs, small spines on surface, thickly set at base, apex with 

 three long and one short spine and small joint ; labial plate with 

 9 to 1 3 small teeth on each side of apex ; lateral combs of eighth 

 segment of twelve scales, each arranged in an irregular row, 

 each scale elongate, with short, fine lateral hairs on the apical 

 two-thirds; spines of siphon in two rows of 12 to 16 each, apical 



Fig. 245. 



Air tube of Aedes fuscus. 

 (After Felt.) 



Fig. 244. 

 Aedes fuscus. Osten Sacken. 

 a, Siphon aud anal segments ; b, scale from comb of 8th 

 segment ; c, scales from pecten of siphon : d, antenna. 

 (After Smith.) 



two separated from the rest and one another, spines with one 

 large tooth near base and one to four small ones below it ; anal 

 gills slender, longer than the ninth segment. 



Aedes cinereus. Meigen (1818). 

 Aedes rufus. Gimmerthal (1845).'"* 



Syst. Beschr. L, 13 (1818), Meigen; Mono. Culicid II., p. 232 (1901), 

 Theobald , Allattan. Kozl. III., p. 72 (1904), Kertesz ; Ann. Mus. Nat. 

 Hung. III., p. 110 (1905), Theobald. 



Fresh specimens have been examined from Hungary. A $ 

 and J carefully examined showed the hind ungues of the J to 

 * Bull. Soc. Imp. d. nat. d. Moscou, xviii., p. 295, 



