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this opinion after comparing Florida specimens with fulvus and 
related species from South America. It has recently been described 
as a distinct subspecies by Ross.° 
AEDES STIMULANS (Walk.) 
(Syn., variety mississippi Dyar, Culicada subcantans Felt) 
This is a northern forest species which has been recorded once from 
Mississippi (Electric Mills). These specimens were named A. st¢im- 
ulans mississippi by Dyar (49), but the variety was later placed as 
a synonym of the type form. Ochlerotatus subcantans, reported from 
Baton Rouge, La., by Mitchell (727), was probably Aedes vexans. 
AEDES GROSSBECKI D. and K. 
(Syn., Culex squamiger Smith (not Coq.), C. sylvicola Gros.) 
This is a rare northeastern species that has been recorded from two 
localities in Mississippi (Natchez and Scott). Dupree’s (48) Culex 
squamiger and Mitchell’s Lepidoplatys sylvicola, reported from Baton 
Rouge, La. (727), may have been this species. A specimen of Aedes 
grossbecki was collected by E. B. Johnson at Monroe, La., in 1939, and 
the identification was confirmed by the present writers. A collection 
from Arkansas has recently been reported (table 1). The adults are 
of rather striking appearance, with patches of white on the sides of the 
mesonotum, a mixture of black and white scales on the legs and wings, 
and wide tarsal bands. ‘The writers are not familiar with the larva. 
AEDES STICTICUS (Meig.) 
(Syn., Culex pretans Gros., Aedes hirsuteron (Theob.) ) 
This species, previously known in the United States as Aedes 
hirsuteron, has been recorded in the Southeast from Lee County, Ga. 
(134), Rives and Memphis, Tenn., and Scott, Ark. (50), Wilson Dam, 
Florence, and Huntsville, Ala. (736), and Bladen County, N. C. (D. F. 
Ashton, March 1939). The writers have examined a specimen, prob- 
ably of this species, from Monroe, La. (E. B. Johnson, collector, March 
1939), and have a specimen from Tallahassee, Fla. Ochlerotatus pre- 
tans, reported from Baton Rouge, La., by Mitchell (727), may have 
been sticticus, or perhaps thibaulti. With the recording of the species 
from Mississippi and South Carolina it has now been found in all of 
the Southeastern States (table 1). Edwards (53) places hirsuteron 
as a synonym of sticticus. 
AEDES TRIVITTATUS (Coq.) 
This is a northern species that has been recorded from Georgia (134), 
Louisiana (57), and recently from Arkansas, Tennessee, South 
Carolina, and North Carolina (table 1). 
AEDES ATROPALPUS (Coq.) 
This species has been recorded in the Southeast from North Carolina 
(51), Kinzel Springs and Knoxville, Tenn. (736), and Petit Jean 
Mountains, Ark. (47). Breeding occurs normally in rock holes, but 
Shields (736) found the larvae on one occasion in an abandoned septic 
tank at Knoxville, Tenn. 
>Ross, E. 8. THE IDENTITY OF AEDES BIMACULATUS (COQUILLETT) AND A NEW SUBSPECIES 
OF AEDES FULVUS (WIEDEMANN) FROM THE UNITED STATES (DIPTERA, CULICIDAE). Wash. Ent. 
Soc. Proce. 45: 143-151, illus. 1948. 
