214 Journal New York Entomological Society, [vol. xiv. 



Urbana, 111. (Knab), Murphysboro, 111. (Mosier), Arlington and 

 Rossi yn, Va. (Pergande). 



Culex cubensis Bigot. Fig. 37. 



Cult \ pungens Wiedemann (not Desvoidy), Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, 11, 1828. 



Culex cubensis Bigot, Hist. rise. Isl. Cuba, vii, 329, 1857. 



( 'uli \ fatigans Blanchard (in part), Les Moustiques, 353, 1905. 



This is the Culex pungens Wied. and is the form called "Culex fat- 

 igans Wied." by Mr. Theobald and, following him, by Miss Ludlow. 

 We are unable to consider it conspecific with the Indian fatigans. In 

 the first volume of his monograph of Culicidae (pp. 28 and 43), Mr. 

 Theobald quotes a figure of the larva and account of its habits from 

 Capt. James, which evidently refers to a wild long-tubed species, 

 something like onr ten- i tans. Other authors refer to fatigans as a do- 

 mestic species, so it may be that Mr. Theobald did not rightlv name 

 Capt. James' material. We have specimens from India labelled fat- 

 igans which come very near our cubensis, yet show enough difference 

 to prevent our putting them under the same name. Cubensis ap- 

 pears to be the earliest valid name based on American specimens, of 

 those that have been referred to the synonymy of fatigans, and we 

 therefore use the name. 



The larva is close to pipiens, but has a shorter air tube, 4x1, and 

 the subdorsal hairs are single. It is a domestic species, but has a 

 southern distribution, overlapping pipiens in the northern part of 

 its range only. The junior author collected it in a shallow puddle at 

 Cordoba, in a water barrel at the door of a workman's dwelling and 

 in a trench back of a store in Rincon Antonio ; in a hole in a tree trun k 

 at Tehuantepec, Mexico ; in a barrel of clear water in a shed at San 

 Jose ; in a boat full of rain water, Port Limon, Costa Rica. Mr. Busck 

 collected it in an earthen-ware vessel of rain water, in an open ditch 

 along a road, in a bucket used to keep live crabs, in an unused chick- 

 en feeder in Cedros ; in a hollow tree near a house, Montserrat, Trinidad ; 

 in an old starch barrel, St. Vincent; in a barrel back of a house, Bar- 

 badoes ; in a hollow tree, Fort de France ; in running water in a horse 

 trough, in running water in the country with green algae, in a rain 

 water barrel in a negro's house, Martinique ; in an old sugar boiler, 

 Dominica ; in a water hole in the country, St. Thomas; in an old iron 

 tank, City of San Domingo. We have North American specimens 



