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Culex barbarus, new species. Fig. 25. 



Very nearly allied to C. cubensis Bigot, but the air tube much stout- 

 er. The lateral hairs are in twos after the second abdominal segment, 

 the subdorsal ones also in twos. Tracheae broad. 



A single specimen was collected by Mr. Busck in a lagoon pool far 

 from habitation on the South coast of Trinidad. It was named ''Cu- 

 lex pipiens L." by Mr. Coquillett. 



Culex bahamensis, new species. Fig. 26. 



This very peculiar species was collected by Dr. T. H. Coffin in the 

 Bahamas, but, although he preserved pupae, he obtained no adults. 

 The skin is glabrous, but curiously enough, the air tube is pilose out- 

 wardly. The lateral hairs are in threes on the third and fourth seg- 

 ments, in twos on the fifth and sixth. There are but a single pair of 

 anal gills, a character only paralleled in Wyeomia. The six tufts of 

 the air tube are arranged in a line along the posterior margin, three 

 of them within the pecten. 



Culex mortificator, new species. Fig. 27. 



Antennae normal, dark throughout; head hairs in threes. Air tube 

 seven times as long as wide, uniformly slightly tapering, the pecten 

 on the basal fourth; tufts very long but few-haired. Comb of the 

 eighth segment of many long spine-like scales in a large patch. Anal 

 segment rather long, normal; anal gills unusually long. 



Collected by the junior author in Zent, Costa Rica, in a hollow in 

 a stump of a banana tree, but no adults were obtained. 



Culex carmodyae, new species. Fig. 28. 



Antennae normal, pale at base. Body pilose; lateral hairs in twos 

 after the second segment; subdorsal hairs long and in twos on seg- 

 ments 5, 6 and 7; tracheae broad. Air tube five to seven times as 

 long as wide with the three tufts in twos, the basal very long, the 

 others successively shorter. Comb of the eighth segment normal, 

 moderate. 



Collected by Mr. Busck in San Domingo from a vase in the hotel 

 parlor and in a slowly running water course across a road. The 

 adults were named "Culex salinarius Coq.' ' and "Culex pipiens L," 

 neither of which species occurs in the island to our knowledge. We 



