CULEX EGBERTI 421 



CULEX EGBERTI Dyar & Knab. 



Culex cghcrti Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 214, 1907. 

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



Oeiginal Description of Culex egberti: 



5. Proboscis moderately long and slender, swollen towards the tip, roughly black 

 scaled; palpi short, black; occiput dark scaled; margins of the eyes dull whitish 

 scaled; mesonotum brown scaled; pleura dark brownish with patches of whitish 

 scales; metanotum dark brown; abdomen depressed, truncate at tip, black scaled 

 above, without metallic luster, the segments with narrow white basal bands which 

 are broadened at the sides, beneath with broad white basal bands; legs black scaled 

 with bronzy luster, the femora light scaled beneath; claws equal and simple; scales 

 of the wings long and dense, broad on some of the veins, uniformly brown. Length, 

 3 mm. 



Three specimens, Warner's Camp, North Shore of Lake Okeechobee, Florida (J. 

 H. Egbert). 



Ti/pe. No. 10876, U. S. National Museum. 



Named in honor of Dr. J. H. Egbert, who collected these and other interesting 

 mosquitoes in central Florida. Two of the specimens are distended with blood. 



Description of Female of Culex egberti (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



Female. Proboscis rather slender, slightly enlarged at apex, labellse conically 

 tapered ; vestiture black with a bronzy reflection ; setae rather long, outstanding, 

 sparse, black. Palpi moderate, one-fifth as long as proboscis, brownivsh black. 

 Antennas moderate, joints snbequal, rugose, pilose, black ; hairs of whorls sparse, 

 moderate, black; tori subspherical, with a cup-shaped apical excavation, dark 

 brown. Clypeus rounded triangular, dark brown, nnde. Eyes black. Occiput 

 black, clothed with narrow, curved brassy-brown scales in the middle, broader, 

 black ones on the sides, eyes bordered with white scales, many erect, forked black 

 scales, denser laterally ; cheeks white scaled. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, clothed with narrow, curved 

 whitish scales and black bristles. Mesonotum dark brown, clothed with rather 

 coarse, narrow, curved, dark bronzy-brown scales, those over roots of wings and 

 around ante-scutellar space paler ; set^ coarse, brown. Scutellum trilobate, 

 clothed with a few pale-brown scales, each lobe with a tuft of black bristles. 

 Postnotum elliptical, prominent, dark brown, nude. Pleurae and coxse dark 

 brown, with patches of elliptical whitish scales and fine setae. 



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

 with a slight bronzy reflection, the segments, except the first, banded at base 

 with white, widening at the sides; venter white scaled at bases of segments, 

 with apical black bands. 



AVings rather broad, hyaline ; petiole of second marginal cell about one-fifth 

 as long as its cell, that of second posterior cell one-half as long as its cell ; basal 

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

 veins dense, brown, the outstanding ones long, broadly linear, those on forks of 

 second and fourth veins and outer half of third denser ligulate. Halteres 

 whitish, with dark brown knobs. 



Legs rather long, slender; vestiture black with a slight bronzy and blue re- 

 flection ; femora whitish beneath nearly to the tips, their apices whitish above. 

 Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3 mm. ; wing 3 mm. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Southern Florida. 



Warner's Camp, north shore of Lake Okeechobee, March, 1906 (J. H. Egbert). 



