98 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Culex inquisitor Dyar and Kiiab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiV, 



211, 1906. 

 Culex revelator Dyar and Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xv, 



202, 1907. 



The adult female has the abdomen with basal segmental 

 white spots, sometimes extended as dull whitish bands; but 

 the central spot whiter or produced. In the male there are 

 even white bands. The genitalia have a peculiar second uncal 

 plate, consisting of three stout claws from a circular base. 

 The larva has the head hairs in threes or four-three, the skin 

 spicular, the air-tube with three tufts, the middle one moved 

 out of line ; pecten commonly long, but not uniformly so. 



In our original descriptions of declarator, proclamator and 

 inquisitor, from larvae, three lengths of the air-tube pecten are 

 shown ; but these characters become less distinct the more 

 specimens are examined. Nevertheless, two races seem indi- 

 cated. In declarator proper, the pecten is short, the teeth about 

 4x1 and about 14 in number. It occurs from Trinidad to 

 Panama, including the Lesser Antilles, specifically Dominica 

 and St. Thomas. In proclamator the pecten is longer, the teeth 

 5 X 1 or over and 18 to 20 in number. It occurs from Mexico 

 to Panama, and the two forms may coalesce in the latter 

 region. 



The exact position of the hair tufts on the air tube seems 

 to be unreliable. The character found in the adult of the 

 white tip of the last tarsal joint being present or absent seems 

 to be variable. The banding of the abdomen as given in the 

 monograph, I do not verify on reexamination. 



19. Culex (Culex) interrogator Dyar and Knab. 



Culex interrogator Howard, Dyar and Knab, Monog., iii, 417, 

 1915. 



Quite erroneously placed in the monograph in the Melano- 

 conion group. The proboscis should not have been taken as 

 "swollen at the tip," or, if so, then the character is worthless, 

 for this is a true Culex. 



20. Culex (Culex) restuans Theobald. 



Culex restuans Howard. Dyar and Knab, Monog., iii, ?,'^?>, 1915. 



