ITS INSECUTOR INSClTliE MENSTRUUS 



Culex (Culex) whitmorei Giles. 



Tacniorhynchus zvhitmorei Giles, Journ. Trop. Med., vii, 367, 1904. 

 Tacniorhynchus argenteus Ludlow, Can. Ent., xxxvii, 98, 1905. 

 Leucomyia plegepcnnis Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 375, 1907. 

 Culex albtis Leicester, Cul. of Malaya, 148, 1908. 



Culex (Culex) hensemaeon, new species. 



Proboscis moderate, brown, darker at the tip and paler 

 below. Head with coarse and rather sparse narrow curved 

 golden scales on the vertex and pale erect forked ones ; small 

 flat white ones on the sides, extending a little way up as a 

 narrow border to the eyes. Mesonotum dark brown, with 

 coarse narrow curved light golden scales, divided by two 

 impressed bare lines. Abdomen dark above, blackish, except 

 for the pale bristles at ends of segments and a single trian- 

 gular white band at the base of the second segment ; no lateral 

 patches ; venter sordid yellowish scaled. Legs dark, the 

 femora paler below ; tips of femora and tibiae, especially the 

 hind pair, narrowly whitish. Wing scales brown, the outstand- 

 ing ones long and linear. Fork-cells long, especially the 

 upper. Tarsal claws simple. Length about 4 mm. 



Type, female. No. 23718, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Los Bafios, P. L, 

 May 28, 1915. 



Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say. 



Culex quinquefasciatus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 



10, 1823. 

 Culex pungens Weidemann (not Robineau-Desvoidy), Auss. 



zweifl. Ins., i, 9, 1828. 

 Culex fatigans Weidemann, Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, 10, 1828. 

 Anopheles ferruginostis Wiedemann, Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, 12, 



1828. 

 Ciilex cubensis Bigot. Hist. fis. Isl. Cuba, vii, 329, 1856. 

 Culex penafieli Williston, La Naturaieza. vii, 326, 1887. 

 Culex sktisii Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 292, 1900. 

 Culex quasipipiens Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 136, 1901. 

 Culex fouchoivensis Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 137, 1901. 

 Culex fatigans luteoannulatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 159, 1901. 

 Culex fatigans macleayi Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 163, 1901. 

 Culex fatigans trilineatus Theobald (not Theobald), Mon. Culic, 



ii, 159, 1901. 

 Culex osakacnsis Theobald {S), Mon. Culic, iv, 439, 1907. 



