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13. Culex (Melanoconion) anips Dyar. 



Culex anips Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., iv, 48, 1916. 

 Known only from southern California. The larvse live in 

 pools of permanent water with cat-tails and Lemna, containing 

 fish ; the larva has not been described. The male genitalia are 

 as in erraticus, the clasp filament terminating in a weak spnie 

 as in peccator, the outer margin with two hair patches, not 

 forming a crest. 



Section MOCHLOSTYRAX Dyar and Knab 



14. Culex (Mochlostyrax) egberti Dyar and Knab. 



Culex egberti Howard, Dyar and Knab, 1. c, iii, 421, 1915. 

 Known only from Lake Okeechobee, Florida, from female 

 adults ; male, larva and life history unknown. This may prove 

 to be the same as floridanus ; but, on account of the white 

 spots on the abdomen, we keep it separate, pending further 

 information. 



15. Culex (Mochlostyrax) floridanus Dyar and Knab. 



Mochlostyrax cubensis Dyar and Knab (not Culex cubensis 



Bigot), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 223, 225, 1906. 

 Mochlostyrax floridanus Dyar and Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 



xix, 171, 1906. 

 Culex agitator Dyar and Knab (new name), Journ. N. V. Ent. 



Soc, XV, 100, 1907. 

 Culex deceptor Dyar and Knab, Smith. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., 



Hi, 257, 1909. 

 Culex agitator Howard, Dyar and Knab, 1. c, iii, 384, 1915. 

 Culex floridanus Howard, Dyar and Knab, 1. c, iii, 402, 1915. 

 Culex deceptor Howard, Dyar and Knab, 1. c, iii, 408, 1915. 

 Culex mastigia Howard, Dyar and Knab, 1. c, iii, 426, 1915. 



Inhabits southern Florida and Cuba. Our material is ex- 

 tremely scanty, consisting of the following : Of floridanus, larvae, 

 no adult ; of agitator, larvae, no adult ; of deceptor, no larvae, one 

 male and one female adult (the third female type is peccator), 

 the male mounted for genitalia and the abdominal markings 

 cannot be distinguished ; of mastigia, no larvae, two male and 

 two female adults, both males mounted for genitalia, but the 

 bases of the abdomens remaining show broad white basal 



