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argi/ritarsis, Cidex coronator, Uranotcenia dasalis, and an Aedes (F. Knab) ; 

 Cordoba, larxse in a pool of clear water in a river-bed in a deep ravine, January 

 30, 1908, associated with Anopheles strigimacula and Culex pinarocampa (F. 

 Knab) ; Cordoba, larvse in a water-hole containing clear water, April 5, 1908, 

 associated with Anopheles argyritarsis and Culex pinarocampa (F. Knab). 



Culex derivator is allied to Culex territans, but in the female the dorsal ab- 

 dominal bands are wanting. The lateral spots are posteriorly situated, as in 

 Culex territans. 



CULEX TERRITANS Walker. 



Culex territans Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt., 1, 428, 1856. 



Culex territans Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 198, 307, 1900. 



Culex territans Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 111, 1901. 



Culex territans Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, ix, 178, 1901. 



Culex territans Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 455, 1902. 



Culex territans Smith, Ent. News, xiii, 302, 1902. 



Culex territans Dyar, Science, n. s., xvi, 672, 1902. 



Culex territans Johannsen, N. Y. State Mus., Bull. 68, 416, 1903. 



Culex territans Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 48, 142; pi. ii, fig. 18, 1903. 



Culex apicalis Adams (not Theobald), Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., ii (2), 26, 1903. 



Culex territans Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vi, 40, 1904. 



Culex territans Smith, Bull. 171, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., 24, 1904. 



Culex territans Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 307, 1904. 



Culex territans Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xii, 176, 246, 1904. 



Neoculex territans Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 48, 1905. 



Culex territans Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 325, 1905. 



Culex territans Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 445, 483, 1905. 



Culex territans Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 367, 1905. 



Culex saxatilis Grossbeck, Can. Ent., xxxvii, 360, 1905. 



Culex territans Britton & Viereck, Rept. Conn. Agr. Exp. Sta. for 1904, 271, 273, 1905. 



Culex territans Quayle, Univ. Cal. Agr. Exp. Stat., Bull. 178, 52, 1906. 



Culex territans Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 217, 1906. 



Culex territans Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 23, 1906. 



Culex territans Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Circular 72, 3, 1906. 



Culex territans Weber, Ent. News, xvii, 282, 1906. 



Culex territans and Culex saxatilis Smith, Rept. N. J. Agr. Coll. Exp. Stat, for 1905, 



685, 1906., 

 Culex fricTcii Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxviii, 132, 1906. 

 Culex territans Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv. 448, 1907. 

 Culex apicalis Theobald (not Theobald), Mon. Culic, iv, 452, 1907. 

 Culex territans Dyar, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus. xxxii, 125, 1907. 

 Culex territans Howard, Osier's Modern Medicine, i, 377, 1907. 

 Culex territans Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health, Pa., 471, 1908. 

 Culex territans Thibault, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xii, 21, 1910. 

 Culex territans Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 359, 1910. 

 Culex apicalis Theobald (not Theobald), Mon. Culic, v, 362, 1910. 

 Culex frickii Theobald, Mon Culic, v, 371, 1910. 

 Culex saxatilis Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 612, 1910. 

 Culex territans Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 720, 1910. 

 Culex saxatilis Morse, Ann. Rept. N. J. State Mus., 1909, 721, 1910. 



Origixal Description of Culex territans : 



Pallide fusca; proboscis tectacea, apice fuscescens; antennae basi juscae; thorax 

 testaceo trivittatus ; abdomen fasciis albidis, subtus testaceum; pedes testacei; alae 

 subcinereae, venis fuscis subciliatis ; halteres testacei. 



Pale brown. Proboscis testaceous, slender, brownish at the tip. Antennae brown, 

 testaceous at the base, as long as the proboscis. Thorax with three very slender 

 testaceous stripes. Abdomen testaceous beneath; dorsal segments with whitish hind 

 borders. Legs testaceous, long, and slender. Wings grayish; veins brown, slightly 

 ciliated. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



United States. 



Original Description of Culex apicalis : 



Female: Head brown; scales mostly light yellow, some long brown ones; palpi 

 and proboscis wholly brown, antennae brown, with base lighter, thorax brown with 

 light brown scales, pile black; abdomen dark brown, covered with brownish scales, 

 except those on the posterior margin, which are white, forming on the second and 



