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Yellow-fever Commission, and is of some importance to 

 us, as Cuba is so near our Southern States, and American 

 citizens have so many interests in Cuba. Another species 

 of Megarliiniis, namely, grandiosa, Williston, has been 

 added by Mr. Coquillett. 



It is unfortunate that this table has to be published be- 

 fore the monographic work by Mr. F. V. Theobald, the 

 Eng-lish expert, who has had exceptional advantag-es in 

 his^studies, for the British Museum, of the mosquitoes of 

 the whole world, makes its appearance. From correspond- 

 ence with Mr. Theobald I learn that his opinions differ in 

 some respects from those of Mr. Coquillett in reg-ard to the 

 proper names for some of our mosquitoes. For example, 

 the brownish, sordid mosquito which we called CuJcr. 

 pungens is, in Mr. Theobald's opinion, composed of two 

 distinct sjjecies, namely, Culex pipiens (a common Euro- 

 pean mosquito), and Culex fatigans, an East Indian 

 species which he saj^s is identical with Culex 2^11 n gens, and 

 which he states occurs abundantly in many parts of the 

 world, extending- north and south of the Equator to about 

 38'' north and south latitude (just about the rang-e of the 

 yellow-fever mosquito). Mr. Theobald is also inclined to 

 think that the Culex wipiger of Walker is identical with 

 the species known to entomologists as Culex 71! gripes of 

 Zetterstedt, and he also has a mosquito from North Amer- 

 ica which he thinks is Culex cmnnlatus Meig-en, a form 

 which we have not recog-nized in the United States. Mr. 

 Theobald has also received from Canada an Anopheles 

 which he thinks is a variety of A. hi/urcafus. This also 

 is a species which is unknown to us in the United States. 



