INSDCUTOR INSCITI^ MDNSTRUUS 179 



Culex christophcrsii Theobald, Mon. Culic, iv, 453, 1907. 



Culex aikenii Dyar & Knab, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxv, 61, 1908. 



Culex quinquefasciatus dipseticus Dyar & Knab, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Wash., xi, 34, 1909. 

 Culex lachrimans Dyar & Knab, Smith. Misc. Colls., Quart. Iss., 



Hi, 259, 1909. 

 Culex revocator Dyar & Knab, Smith. Misc. Colls., Quart. Iss., 



Hi, 256, 1909. 

 Culex goughii Theobald (c?). Union S. Afr., Dept. Agr., 1st rept. 



Vet. Res., 269, 1911. 

 Culex aseyehae Dyar & Knab, Ins. Ins. Mens., iii, 112, 1915. 



Culex (Culex) sitiens Wiedemann. 



Culex sitiens Wiedemann, Auss. zweifl. Ins., i, 543, 1828. 

 Culex impellens Walker, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., iv, 91, 1860. 

 Culex annulirostris Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2), iii, 



1737, 1889. 

 Culex microannulatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 353, 1901. 

 Culex gnophodes Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 163, 1903. 

 Culex somaliensis Neveu-Lemaire, Arch. Parasit., x, 254, 1906. 

 Ctilex rolandi de Charmoy, Ann. Trop. Med. & Par., ii, 259, 190S. 

 Culex salus Theobald, Third Rep. Welle. Lab.. 256, 1909. 



Culex (Culex) inelegans, new species. 



Male. Antennae whitish, the nodes black. Head white 

 scaled, the vertex with narrow white scales mixed with straw- 

 colored forked ones, the sides broadly with flat white scales. 

 Mesonotum brown, with narrow curved golden brown scales. 

 Abdomen entirely brown, paler below. Legs brown, femora 

 paler below, their tips pale. Palpi and proboscis brown, the 

 palpi exceeding the proboscis by more than the length of the 

 last joint, the last two joints hairy. 



Hypopygium. Side pieces over three times as long as wide, 

 with a subapical prominence bearing three rods, equal in size, 

 a large leaf, ribbed at base, and a stout seta. Clasper thick, 

 attenuated outwardly, the spine subterminal and appendiculate. 

 Tenth sternites with broadly spinose tips and long dark basal 

 arm. Parameres long, curved, dark. Mesosome with ter- 

 minal horn and five long teeth in a central group. 



Type, male, No. 23719, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Los Bafios, P. L, 

 June 20, 1915. A female is tentatively associated with this, 

 September 15, 1915, but it is not in good condition. 



