. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAE OP NEW YORK STATE 343 lateral stripe of bright violet scales, a submedian and sublateral line of dark, coarse bristles. Scutellum nearly black, ornamented with violet scales and tipped with a few very long, black bristles. Abdomen dark brown, flecked with yellow particularly on the fifth, sixth and seventh abdominal segments, the posterior lateral angles of which are narrowly yellowish, the third and fifth with a median, poster- ior, subtriangular whitish patch, that on the latter segment being much larger than th
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. MOSQUITOS OR CULICIDAE OP NEW YORK STATE 343 lateral stripe of bright violet scales, a submedian and sublateral line of dark, coarse bristles. Scutellum nearly black, ornamented with violet scales and tipped with a few very long, black bristles. Abdomen dark brown, flecked with yellow particularly on the fifth, sixth and seventh abdominal segments, the posterior lateral angles of which are narrowly yellowish, the third and fifth with a median, poster- ior, subtriangular whitish patch, that on the latter segment being much larger than the other; genitalia yel- lowish. Pleura with several irregular patches of yellowish white and a line of violet scales. Legs mostly dark brown, yellowish beneath and with narrow, white bands at the apexes of femora and tibiae; ungues simple. Wings subhyaline; veins brownish or black, anterior veins thickly clothed with nearly black dilated scales; a double row of violet scales on basal half of fifth longitudinal vein; fringe silvery gray; basal portion of halteres whitish, apical portion capitate, fus- cous; first submarginal cell very short, with petiole bearing about six very large spatulate scales, second foi^k cell a little over one half the length of the petiole; posterior cross vein a little less than its length from the mid cross vein. Larva. Head jet black in early stages, distinctly longer than wide and presenting an appearance very similar to that of Anophe- les. Antennae jet black, short, swollen at the base, the incon- spicuous tuft a little before the middle. Apex bearing two longer, slender processes, a medium and a large, shorter one. Labial plate narrowly triangular with about 10 conspicuous teeth, and appears to be double like that of Anopheles. Dorsum of head with two subdorsal pairs of baTbed spinelike processes. Compound groups of plumose hairs also occur on the head and on the prothorax, and are continued on the abdominal segments except that in the case of t
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