CULEX MELANURTJS 453 



CULEX MELANURUS Coquillett. 



Culex melanurus Coquillett, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, x, 193, 1902. 



Culex melanurus Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, x, 198, 1902. 



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



Culex melanurus Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., v, 143, pi. ii, fig. 17, 1903. 



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



Culex melanurus Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 337, 1904. 



Ecculex melanurus Felt, Bull. 79, N. Y. State Mus., 391c, 1904. 



Culex melanurus Blanchard, Les Moustiques, 348. 1905. 



Melanoconion melanurus Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, 26, 28, 1905. 



Culicella melanurus Dyar, Proc Ent. Soc. Wash., vii, 48, 1905. 



Culicella melanurus Felt, Bull. 97, N. Y. State Mus., 480, 1905. 



Culex melanurus Smith, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta., Rept. Mosq., 319, 1905. 



Melanoconion melanurus Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 11, 24, 1906. 



Mochlostyrax melanurus Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 223, 1906. 



Melanoconion melanurus Dyar, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent.,Circular 72, 3, 1906. 



Melanoconion melanurus Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 510, 1907. 



Neomelanoconion indecoraMle Peryassu (in part), Os Culicid. do Brazil, 50, 1908. 



Culex {Melanoconion) melanurus Viereck, 1st Ann. Rept. Comm. Health Pa., 471, 



1908. 

 Melanoconion melanurus Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 457, 1910. 

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



Original Description of Culex melanurus : 



Near pipiens, but without distinct bands of light-colored scales at bases of the 

 abdominal segments, the lateral scales on the wing veins rather broad and distinctly 

 tapering at the base, etc Black, the stems of the halteres and posterior and under 

 sides of the femora, yellow, the intermediate short joints of the male antennae 

 largely white, palpi of male not dilated; scales of occiput narrow, yellowish-white, 

 a patch of broad white ones on each side, the upright ones black, scales of meso- 

 notum golden yellow, those of the abdomen violaceous brown, a small patch of white 

 ones at front angles of the segments beyond the second, those on middle of venter 

 yellowish-white, scales of legs purplish-brown, in certain lights with a brassy tint, 

 those on the yellow portion of the femora whitish; tarsal claws of female simple, the 

 front and middle ones in the male one-toothed; wings hyaline; second basal cell 

 much shorter than the first, petiole of the first submarginal cell nearly one-third as 

 long as that cell. Length 3.5 mm. 



Habitat. Center Harbor, N. H. 



Two females and two males bred by Dr. H, G. Dyar. Type No. 6701, U. S. N. M. 

 The specific name was given in allusion to the distinctly blackish anal tube of the 

 larva. 



Description of Female, Male, and Larva of Culex melanurus: 



Female. Proboscis long and slender, subcylindrieal, uniform, labellre con- 

 ically tapered, blackish ; vestiture of bronzy-brown scales, paler beneath. Palpi 

 short, about one-sixth as long as the proboscis, slender, black, with numerous 

 outstanding setae. Antennae with the joints subequal, second and third joints 

 slightly thickened and shorter, rugose, pilose, black; tori subspherical, with a 

 cup-shaped apical excavation, blackish ; hairs of whorls sparse, moderate, black. 

 Clypeus broad, rounded, doubly excavated at base, blackish brown, nude. 

 Occiput blackish brown, sparsely clothed with very narrow, curved, pale yellow- 

 ish scales, denser sordid whitish ones along margins of eyes, many erect, slender 

 forked black scales dorsally, cheeks clothed with lanceolate white scales ; a row 

 of bristles along ocular margins, more numerous than usual. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, with pale scales and brown 

 bristles. Mesonotum dark reddish brown, with two broad, bare, longitudinal 

 slightly paler lines ; vestiture of sparse, long, hair-like light bronzy-brown scales 

 and rows of long, coarse, brown setse, scales around ante-scutellar space paler. 

 Scutellum trilobate, bro'WTi, clothed with minute, curved pale-brown scales, 

 each lobe with a large group of long brown bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, brown, nude. Pleurae and coxae brownish luteous, with rows and 



