CULEX LAMENTATOR 277 



broad. Air-tube 6X1, with six tufts along posterior line; pecten reaching a little 

 over one- fourth. Lateral comb of the eighth segment large; gills moderate. 



Collected by Mr. Busck in a hollow palm trunk in the San Francisco Mts., San 

 Domingo. It was named '' Culex secutor Theob." by Mr. Coquillett; it should be re- 

 garded as a distinct, but allied species, representing the Jamaican form in San 

 Domingo. 



The following is an abstract of the table : 



1. Antennae with the tuft outwardly placed, the part beyond slender. . 5 

 5. Air tube four times as long as wide or over 7 



7. Anal appendages four, normal 8 



8. Air tube with four to ten paired tufts along the posterior line in a 



straight row, none displaced, or the hairs obsolete or absent. 18 



18. Air tube without a crown of spikes, smooth throughout 19 



19. Air tube with long well-defined tufts 20 



20. Body glabrous or lightly granular 26 



26. Air tube regularly tapered, the tip not widened 28 



28. Both head hairs triple or multiple 29 



29. Lateral abdominal hairs in twos after the second segment; body 



spicular-granular; air tube 6X1 30 



30. Air tube with six to seven sparse tufts; antennae dark; dorsal tufts 



of anal segment 1 long -|- 1 long and one short lamentator 



Description of Female, Male, and Larva of Culex lamentator: 



Female. Proboscis moderate, subcylindrical, scarcely expanding to tip, 

 labellffi paler, conically tapered; vestiture black; setae minute, curved, black, 

 those on labellfe more prominently outstanding. Palpi small and slender, one- 

 fourth as long as proboscis, black, with a few outstanding setae. Antennae with 

 the basal joints somewhat shorter, rugose, pilose, black, second joint slightly en- 

 larged; tori subspherical, with a cup-shaped apical excavation, luteous, blackish 

 on inner side; hairs of whorls sparse, moderate, black. Clypeus rounded tri- 

 angular, doubly excavated at base, dark brown, nude. Eyes black. Occiput 

 brown, clothed with narrow, curved, lustrous pale-brown scales with broader 

 scales at sides ; w^hitish in a narrow margin behind eyes and at sides below ; many 

 erect, forked black scales on nape ; a row of black bristles along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote, dorsally, clothed with pale scales and 

 black setfB. Mescinotum brown, with two dorsal impressed lines running the 

 whole length; vestiture of narrow, curved lustrous-brown scales; those along 

 anterior and lateral margins, around ante-scutellar space and two dots on disk 

 yello^^dsh, bristles black, numerous. Scutellum trilobate, brown, clothed with 

 yellowish scales, each lobe with a tuft of brown bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, brown, nude. Pleura and coxse blackish, with small patches of 

 white scales and with rows of small brown bristles, coxae tinted with greenish. 



Abdomen subcjdindrical, depressed, truncated at tip; dorsal vestiture black, 

 with a slight greenish-metallic reflection, a narrow white band at base of each 

 segment but the first, joined to lateral rows of basal segmentary triangular 

 spots; venter tinted with green, transverse yellowish-white scaled, with black 

 bars at tips of segments and a row of sub-basal black spots; a row of whitish 

 hairs at tip of each segment dorsally. 



Wings moderate, hyaline ; petiole of second marginal cell about one-third as 

 long as its cell, that of second posterior cell a little shorter than its cell ; basal 

 cross-vein four times its own length distant from anterior cross- vein; scales 

 blackish brown, outstanding one broadly linear, very dense on forks of second 

 vein. Halteres whitish, dark at tip. 



Legs moderate, femora white beneath almost to tip; tibiae white at apices, 

 tarsi bluish black, with a slight metallic reflection, with narrow white bands at 

 base and apex of each joint ; mid tarsi with last joint dark at tip ; fore tarsi with 

 the rings nearly obsolete; knees white. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0, 



Length : Body about 4 mm. ; wing 4 mm. 



