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mental, dull white bands, beneath yellowish white scaled, the apices 

 of the segments marked with indistinct pale brown bands. Wings 

 with the scales narrowly ovate on the second to fourth veins out- 

 wardly. Legs black. 



Seven specimens, Havana, Cuba, February 15, 1904 (J. R. Tay- 

 lor). 



Type no. 12108, U. S. N. M. 



CULEX INVOCATOR, new species 



Proboscis moderate, not swollen at the tip, black-scaled. Occiput 

 with broad flat bronzy brown scales, a few narrow curved ones on the 

 vertex, a patch of dull white scales well down the side. Abdomen 

 deep black-scaled above with rather small lateral whitish spots, venter 

 black-scaled with narrow white basal segmental bands. Legs black. 

 Wing-scales dense, narrow, those on the apical portion of the wing 

 mostly somewhat broader. 



Sixteen specimens, San Antonio de los Batios, Cuba (J. H. 

 Pazos). 



Type no. 12110, U. S. N. M. 



CULEX DUPLICATOR, new species 



Proboscis uniform, black-scaled with a broad white ring at the 

 middle. Abdomen black above, with rather narrow white basal seg- 

 mental bands, some of them slightly produced in the middle. Legs 

 black, femora and tibiae white-lined on the outer side, the tarsal joints 

 broadly white-ringed at base and apex. Wing-scales narrow, those 

 on the forks of the second vein moderately long, narrowly lanceolate. 



Five specimens, San Francisco Mountains, Santo Domingo (A, 

 Busck). 



Type no. 121 ii, U. S. N. M. 



CULEX AIKENII Aiken 



Theobald described Gnopliodeomyia inornata from British Guiana 

 (Journal of Economic Biology, i, 20, 1905 ; Monogr. Culicid., iv, 

 252, 1907) ; the description is repeated by Mr. Aiken (The British 

 Guiana Medical Annual for 1906, 60, 1907), but under the name 

 Gnophodeomyia aikenii, which name he credits to Theobald, but 

 erroneously. We have received specimens, and find the species 

 referable to Culex, of which Gnophodeomyia Theobald will become 

 a synonym. Theobald's species on being transferred to Cidex be- 

 comes invalidated through the existence of Culcx inoniatus Willis- 

 ton (U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ornith. and Mam., North American 

 Fauna, no. 7, 253, 1893), and will be known as Culex aikenii Aiken. 



