406 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



three of them two-haired, the apical one three-haired. Anal segment longer 

 than wide, ringed by plate; dorsal tuft of four unequal hairs on each side; 

 lateral hair single, short; ventral brush ample, confined by the chitinous ring. 

 Anal gills short, stout, pointed, lower pair shorter than upper ones. 



The larvae live in ground-pools more or less covered with algas, according to 

 Dr. Grabham's observations. 



Island of Jamaica, West Indies. 



Spanish Town, January 17, 1905 (M. Giabham). 



Dr. Grabham attributes the authorship of the species to Mr. Theobald, but we 

 are obliged to credit it to Dr. Grabham, since he not only published the article 

 in which the description appears, but also prefaces Theobald's quoted description 

 with one of his own of the larva, thereby fixing the species as his own. This 

 species is nearly allied to Culex saJinarius of continental North America, and 

 is obviously the Jamaican rcpiesentative of it. 



CULEX INFLICTUS Theobald. 



Culex inflictus Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 115, 1901. 

 Culex inflictus Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 2 ed., 462, 1902. 

 Culex inflictus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 337, 1905. 

 Ciilex inflictus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 360, 1910. 



Origixal Description of Culex inflictus: 



Thorax brown in front, pallid behind, small pale brown curved scales on anterior 

 part and three double rows of black bristles in front, two behind; pleurae pallid. 

 Abdomen dusky-black, with basal white triangular spots; venter grey. Legs black, 

 unhanded, base and venter of femora grey, knee and tibial spots orange; fork-cells 

 of wings short. 



$. Head brown, with pale curved scales and black upright forked ones, and a 

 border of white curved scales round the eyes; antennae brown, with pale bands, basal 

 joint large and testaceous, dark on the int'de; palpi black scaled, testaceous at the 

 base; clypeus chestnut-brown; proboscis dark brown scaled, short, a little longer 

 than the antennae; eyes deep purplish-black. 



Thorax with the mesothorax brown in front, pallid behind, the front with small 

 pale brown curved scales, with three double rows of black bristles in front, two rows 

 behind, one on each side of the pale area in front of the scutellum, which has small 

 narrow pale scales and small dark bristles, long black bristles on each side over the 

 roots of the wings; scutellum very pale silvery-grey, with small pale curved scales, 

 seven dark brown bristles to median lobe, and five large ones to the lateral lobes; 

 pleurae pale silvery-grey. 



Abdomen covered with dusky-black scales, the segments with basal white tri- 

 angular spots, and the posterior borders with long pale bristles; venter with grey 

 scales. 



Legs covered with deep black scales with purplish reflections, coxae grey, base and 

 under-sides of the femora white scaled; knee spot and extreme apex of tibiae orange; 

 ungues very small, equal, simple. 



Wings with fork-cell short, the first sub-marginal cell longer but no narrower than 

 the second posterior, two and a half times the length of the stem, its base nearer the 

 base of the wing than the base of the second posterior; stem of the second posterior 

 cell a little shorter than the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly four times its own 

 length from mid cross-vein. 



Halteres with pale ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. 4 mm. (hind legs 9 mm.). 



Time of capture. March. 



Habitat. Grenada (W. E. Broadway). 



Observations. Very distinct species, easily told by the pallid posterior portion to 

 the thorax, with the strongly contrasted black bristles in two rows, one on each side 

 of the pale space in front of the scutellum, with its small dark bristles and pallid 

 scales. The legs look long and thin. 



There are no specimens of this species in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



The larva is unknown and the life history and habits are unknown. 



Mr. F. W. Edwards tells us that he considers this species to be the same as 

 Culex scholasticus; we have no personal knowledge of either form. 



