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tip ; an outer row of cilia from a long collar ; a row of conical prominences within 

 outer margin, each bearing a tuft of short hairs; dentition within margin, a 

 single stout tooth with a row of thick spines below ; a long smooth filament, a 

 serrate one and a row of short hairs within : process below continuous with outer 

 margin, obscurely furcate, with a row of hairs above and a tuft at tip of each 

 limb ; basal angle narrowly prominent, within with a row of stout hairs with 

 divided tips, in line with a row of similar longer basal hairs. Maxilla elongate, 

 conically rounded at tip, divided by a suture ; inner half with a row of long 

 hairs on margin, two short rows of cilia within and a short stout articulated 

 spine near tip ; a row of long hairs at tip running down along the suture almost 

 to base; outer half with two small filaments at basal fourth. Palpus rudi- 

 mentary, with four long apical digits. Thorax rounded, wider than long ; abdo- 

 men moderate, anterior segments shorter ; skin glabrous. Air-tube conically 

 tapered, arcuate on posterior margin, three times as long as wide ; pecten of long 

 sparse spines, reaching over basal third; single spine densely serrate on one 

 side ; nine long hair-tufts on posterior margin, three of them within pecten ; a 

 pair of large recurved hooks at tip, each with a median tooth. Lateral comb of 

 eighth segment of eight long smooth spines in a straight row. Anal segment 

 longer than wide, ringed by the plate ; ventral brush confined to the barred area; 

 anal gills slender, about as long as the segment. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Island of Cuba, West Indies. 



Havana, October, November 1, 1902 (J. E. Taylor) ; San Antonio de los 

 Bancs (J. H. Pazos). 



CULEX CORRIGANI Dyar & Knab. 



Culex corrigani Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 203, 1907. 

 Culex corrigani Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., lii, 69, 1908. 

 Culex corrigani Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 614, 1910. 



Origin AX Description of Cule:x corrigani: 



5. Proboscis long and slender, distinctly swollen at the apex, black scaled, not 

 ringed; palpi very short, brown scaled, occiput brown scaled, the eyes with distinct 

 white margins; mesonotum rather light-brown scaled, with a darker shade on the 

 posterior portion and with many long coarse black bristles; metanotum very light 

 brown; pleura pale greenish; abdomen somewhat depressed, truncate at the tip, 

 clothed above and at the sides with black scales with a brownish luster, beneath 

 greenish-white scaled along the median line; legs black with bronzy luster, claws 

 simple; scales of the wing-veins brown, long and narrow. Length, 3 mm. 



One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, collector), bred 

 from larvae in water in bamboo joints. 



Type. No. 10870, U. S. National Museum. 



Named, at the suggestion of Mr. Busck, in honor of Mr. John Corrigan, Sanitary 

 Inspector of Tabernilla. 



The larva is allied to that of Culex conservator Dyar & Knab, but differs in the 

 long slender antennae on which the tuft is placed very near the apex, and in having 

 six single hairs on the air-tube. 



Description of Female and Larva of Cuxex corrigani (Male Unknown; : 



Female. Proboscis moderately long, slender, enlarged at tip, clothed with 

 rough black scales, setae rather long, outstanding, sparse, labellse small, conically 

 tapered. Palpi small, about one-seventh as long as proboscis, blackish scaled. 

 Antennae moderate, joints subequal, rugose, pilose, black; hairs of whorls sparse, 

 moderate, black. Clypeus short, rounded, dark brown, with a white prui- 

 nosity. Eyes black. Occiput black, clothed witli narrow, curved pale-brown 

 scales and numerous erect, forked, long pale-brown scales all over surface, a 

 row of flat white scales along margins of eyes, cheeks not differentiated; two 

 coarse black bristles projecting forward between eyes, some fine black setae along 

 margins of eyes. 



