202 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THREE NEW SPECIES OF CULEX. 



BY D. W. COQUILLETT, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Culex atropalpus, new species. 



°. . Black, the halteres, apices of coxae, and bases and under side of 

 femora, except toward the apex, yellowish white ; scales of palpi black, 

 occiput covered with broad, appressed whitish scales and with a patch of 

 black ones near the middle of each side, the middle of the upper side 

 covered with narrow yellowish scales, the upright forked scales yellow ; 

 scales of mesonotum golden yellow and with a median vitta of black ones; 

 scales of abdomen purplish black, and with a narrow fascia of whitish ones 

 at the bases of the segments, becoming much broader on the venter ; 

 scales of legs black, those at base and on under side of femora, 

 except toward the apex, also at extreme apices of femora, both ends 

 of tibiaa and of the tarsal joints, except the last two and apex of the third 

 on the front and middle tarsi, white, those on last joint of hind tarsi 

 wholly white ; claws of front and middle tarsi toothed, those of the hind 

 ones simple ; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins long and narrow, 

 first submarginal cell slightly over twice as long as its petiole. 



o* . Colouring as in the female, except that the short joints of 

 the antennae are ringed with white ; palpi two thirds as long as the 

 proboscis, slender, the apex blunt, last two joints less than half as long as 

 the remaining portion, and bearing a few rather short hairs ; claspers 

 of nearly an equal thickness, evenly coveied with hairs, and with a long, 

 slender, curved claw at apex of each ; fourth joint of front and middle 

 tarsi as broad as long ; larger claw of front and middle tarsi one-toothed, 

 the smaller one and the claws of the hind tarsi simple. 



Length, 3.5 to 4.5 mm. Thirty-seven females and three males. 

 Type No. 655S, U. S. National Museum. 



Habitat. — Richmond, Ya. (Sept. 26: E. G. Williams); Plummer's 

 Isd., Montgomery Co., Md. (May 18 to Aug. 14: R. P. Currie and H. S. 

 Barber); Shenk's Ferry, Pa. (Oct. 21: S. E. Weber), and White Mts., N. 

 H. (H. K. Morrison). 



Near Canadensis, but readily distinguished by the colour of the scales 

 on the palpi and mesonotum. 

 Culex varipalpus, new species. 



$ . Same as atropa/pits, with these exceptions : Scales on apices 

 of palpi and a ring near the middle, white ; occiput with two patches of 



