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however, are tufted as in Culex proper and not comb-shaped 

 as in Deinocerites. The unci are as in neither of these groups. 

 Culex bahamensis was described from larvae collected by Dr. 

 Coffin, the adults being unknown. I have considered the pos- 

 sibility of the present species being the adult of bahamcnsis, 

 but do not think it to be probable. The larva of bahamensis 

 has the tufts of the air-tube in a straight line and therefore 

 should belong in the Melanoconion group of Culex; eleuthcra 

 has the harpes tufted and belongs in Culex proper. The locality 

 where Coffin took the bahamensis larvae is not now known, but 

 they were evidently not taken at Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera, 

 for Dr. Coffin, in his published account, does not mention 

 having taken larvae at that place. 



Culex aseyehae Dyar and Knab. 



Diligent search has failed to locate the types of this species. 

 I can only conclude that Mr. Knab failed to attach type labels 

 at the time of description, but left the specimens standing in 

 the box, and they have now been placed with quinquefasciatus 

 by me. I think the name is a synonym of this species. At 

 the time, I was under the impression that the short-tubed 

 larva breeding in "wild" rock-holes with similis and sphinx 

 was a new species, and I told Mr. Knab so, persuading him, 

 after my departure from Washington, and no doubt against 

 his better judgment, to draw up a description. Recent study 

 of the material shows that this species is only quinquefasciatus, 

 breeding in "wild" pools. In fact this species seems to be dis- 

 tinctly less domesticated than pipiens, at least in regard to 

 breeding places, for aseychce was bred from a surface rock- 

 pool on the road to Lake Cunningham with no habitation what- 

 ever within sight. 



Culex reductor Dyar and Knab. 



The species listed by Mr. Knab and myself as Culex sp. 

 may be safely identified with Culex reductor of Jamaica. The 

 larva agrees exactly with that species, and not with floridanus 

 of Florida and Cuba. 



This peculiar distribution is paralleled by Aedes albonotata, 

 a Santo Domingan species which I took in Nassau, but which 



