30 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



ON THE IDENTITY OF CULEX PIPIENS LINN/EUS. 



[Diptera, Culicidae.] 



[PLATES I TO III.] 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR and FREDERICK KNAB. 



The family Culicidse, comprising the mosquitoes, is based 

 upon the genus Citle.r of Linnaeus, of which the generally recog- 

 nized type is Culex pipiens Linnaeus. The genus and species 

 date from the beginning of binomial nomenclature, the tenth 

 edition of the Systema Naturae. In this work, page 602, Lin- 

 naeus treats the genus thus : 



VI. DIPTERA. 



224 CULEX. Os aculeis setaceis intra vaginam flexilem. 

 pipiens. 1. C. cinereus, abdomine annulis fuscis octo. Fn. svec. 1116. 

 Fl. Lapp. 363, 364. 

 Blank ins. t. 15. /. A-D. 

 Reaum. ins. 4. t. 43, 44. 

 Swamm. quart, t. 23. 



bibl. t. 31. /. 4-8. /. 32. /. 1-5. 



Joblot. micr. 1. pp. 2. t. 13. /. A. B. C. D. E. H. I. L. 

 ft. Kalm. itin. 2. p. 268. Musquetoes. 

 Habitat in Europae aquosis; copiosissima in Lapponia; 



ctiam in America obvia. Kalm. 



Mas antennis plumosis vix pungit out sugit sanguinem. 



Larva in Aquis; Pupa bicornis reversal Insectum 



pipiens, pungcns; in Indiis magis venenata. An- 



scres allicit, pullos GaUinarum nutrit Lapponum 



calamitas felicissima. 



bifurcatus. 2. C. fuscus, rostro bifurco. Fn. svec. 1115. 

 Raj. ins. 74. . 4. 

 Reaum. ins. 4. t. 40. /. 1, 2. 

 Habitat in Europa. 



pulicaris. 3. C. alis hyalinis : tnaculis tribus obscuris. Faun svec. 1117. 

 Fl. Lapp. 365. 



Derh. phys.-th. 1. i. c. u, f, 5, 6. 

 Habitat in Europa ; in America. Kalm. 

 Cursitat, mordet, relinquit punctum fuscum. Amoen. 



acad. 3. p. 343. 

 reptans. 4. C. niger, alis hyalinis, pedibus nigris annulo albo. Fn. 



svec. 1118. 



Habitat in Europa, reptatu molestus tempore vespertino. 

 (.quinus. 5. C. ater, abdomine fusco, fronte alba. Fn. svec. 1120. 



Fl. Lapp. 359. 

 Habitat circum Equos, quorum sanguinem haurit, inter 



crines corum cursitans. 

 stercoreus. 6. C. testaceus, alis reticulatis, linea thoracis, tribusque 



abdominis nigricantibus. 

 Habitat in stercoribus. 



