608 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Dendromyia smithii. Coquillett (1901). 

 Wyeomyia smithii. Coquillett. 

 Aedes smithii. Coquillett. 



Canad. Entomo. XXXIII., p. 260 (1901), Coquillett ; Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 

 IX., p. 178 (1901), Dyar ; Mono. Culicid. III., p. 295 (1903), Theobald ; 

 Kept. N. Jer. St. Agri. Exp. Sta. on Mosquitoes, pp. 342-353 (1904) 

 Smith ; Mosq. N. York, BuU. 79, Ent. 22, N. Y. St. Mus., pp. 340, 341, 

 375, 376, 377, 378 (1904), and App. 391, e., Felt ; 20th Kept. St. Entomo. 

 Bull. 97, Ent. 24, N. Y. St. Mus., pp. 444, 446, 463, 464, 491, 493-494 

 (1905), Felt ; Les Moustiques, p. 403 (1905), Blanchard. 



Head with black scales, paler ones at the sides and 

 extending to some extent around the border of the eyes ; palpi 

 and proboscis black. Thorax deep blackish brown except the 

 prothoracic lobes, which are mauve ; pleurae testaceous with 

 white puncta. Abdomen deep brown above, silvery white 

 ventrally. Legs deep bronzy brown. 



9 . Head deep brown, with blackish brown almost black flat 

 scales, pale at the sides and extending to some extent around the 

 eyes, and sometimes forming a pale grey area between them 

 extending on to the occiput ; palpi and proboscis deep blackish- 

 brown ; antennae blackish-brown, some black scales on the second 

 segment ; chaetae of head black, two prominent ones projecting 

 forwards between the eyes from the pale scaled area. 



Thorax deep blackish-brown with large flattened dusky scales, 

 black to dull brown with slight greenish-brown reflections in some 

 lights, becoming larger and extending over the scutellum ; the 

 prothoracic lobes are clothed with flat metallic mauve scales ; 



Fig. 278. 

 Dendromyia smithii. 9 • Coquillett. 



metanotum bright brown with a bunch of dark brown chaetae ; 

 pleurae pale ochreous to testaceous with patches of silvery-white 

 scales. 



Abdomen uniformly deep blackish brown to almost black 



