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It is evidently a very abundant West Indian species a large series being sent from 

 St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada. The Grenada species were taken on the Ballast 

 Ground and in the Botanic Station. The ciliate hind tibio-metatarsal joint also seems 

 characteristic. I cannot satisfactorily identify it with any described species. 



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



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



It seems very doubtful to us that the specimens later referred to Culex scholas- 

 ticiis by Theobald (Mon. Culic, iii, 224, 1903) really belong to this species. 

 According to the opinion of Mr. F. W. Edwards, who has examined the types, 

 Culex scholasticus is a synonym of Culex inflictus. From the descriptions there 

 appear to be some differences in the color of the occiput, and we have pro- 

 visionally kept the names separate in our tables. The specimens identified by 

 Coquillett as this species are Culex similis Theobald. Coquillett referred this 

 species to the genus Grabliamia, having been misled by a wrong association of 

 larvEe (U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 21, 1906) ; the larvae in ques- 

 tion belonged to Psorophora cingulatus Fabricius. 



CULEX DECEPTOR Dyar & Knab. 



Culex deceptor Dyar & Knab, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., Ill, 257, 1909. 

 Original Description of Culex deceptor : 



Legs dark-scaled. Proboscis swollen at the tip. Occiput dark-scaled, the eyes 

 margined with whitish. Venter of the abdomen black and white-banded, the upper 

 surface dull black without dorsal bands, but with pale lateral spots; forks of the 

 second vein with long ligulate scales. 



Three specimens. Fort White, Florida (H. Byrd). 



Type no. 12104, U. S. N. M. 



Description of Female and Male of Culex deceptor (Larva Unknown). 



Female. Proboscis moderate, swollen at tip, labellas conically tapered ; vesti- 

 ture black with bronzy reflection ; setse minute, curved and black, those on labellse 

 more prominently outstanding. Palpi short, one-fifth as long as the proboscis, 

 black, with a few outstanding setas at base. Antenna moderate ; joints subequal, 

 rugose, pilose, blackish, second joint a little longer than third ; tori subspherical, 

 with a cup-shaped apical excavation, luteous shading to brown within ; hairs of 

 whorls sparse, moderate, black. Clypeus rounded triangular, convex, brown, 

 nude. Eyes black. Occiput blackish, clothed with broad, flat black scales with 

 a bronzy reflection in some lights, scales along ocular margin white ; a patch of 

 white scales well down the sides, many erect, forked black scales dorsally ; a row 

 of bristles along margins of the eyes. 



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

 bro\ni bristles. i\Iesonotum dark brown, clothed with narrow, curved, dark 

 bronzy-brown scales and rows of dark bristles. Scutellum trilobate, with similar 

 vestiture to mesonotum, with a tuft of black bristles on each lobe. Postnotum 

 elliptical, prominent, brown, nude. Pleurse and coxae luteous, shaded with 

 brownish, with patches of elliptical white scales and rows of brown bristles. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, depressed, truncate at tip ; dorsal vestiture black, a 

 row of lateral, triangular, basal segmental, white patches ; venter blacldsh scaled, 

 a broad white band at base of each segment, apices of segments with rather coarse 

 pale hairs ; apex of abdomen, particularly beneath, densely hairy. 



Wings moderate, hyaline ; petiole of second marginal cell less than one-third 

 as long as its cell, that of second posterior cell shorter than its cell : basal cross- 

 vein distant nearly twice its length from anterior cross-vein ; scales of veins 

 brown, with a blue reflection along costa, most of the outstanding ones long and 

 ligulate on second to fourth veins outwardly, those at tip narrowly lanceolate. 

 Halteres whitish, with blackish knobs. 



