286 MOSQUITOES 



CULEX RESTUANS Tlieob. 



Plate L, Fig. 1. 

 Culex restuans Theobald, 1901, Mon. Culic, vol. ii, p. 142. 



Description. Color. — Chestnut-brown. 



Size. — 5 to 6 mm. 



Head. — Black, with nmnerous pale, creamy, curved scales, and black, 

 upright, forked ones, flat white scales at sides of head; palpi black, greyish at 

 tip; antennaj with basal joint and base of second joint testaceous, remainder 

 blackish-brown. 



Thorax. — Bright, chestnut-brown, short, bright, golden-brown curved 

 scales; scutellum pale; mesonotura ochraceous-brown ; pleurae pale, testaceous, 

 with four patches of white scales. 



Ahdomen. — Ochraceous, covered with dusky-brown scales; first segment 

 ochraceous, with two median tufts of blackish scales and long golden hairs. 



Legs. — With coxae, bases and imder sides of femora almost white, remain- 

 der deep, bronzy-brown to almost black; claws equal and simple. 



Remarks. — i specimens of this form were taken at Governors Harbor, 

 July 6. 



Culex serratus Theob. 

 Culex serratus Theobald, 1901, Mon. Culic, vol. ii, p. 45. 



Description. Color. — Dark brown. 



Size. — 5.5 to G.5 mm. 



Head. — Brown, clothed with white scales in front and in the middle, 

 brown above and white at the sides, with a few upright, yellow, forked scales; 

 eyes purple, bordered with a narrow edge of white; antenna3 brown; palpi 

 black, with a few dark grey scales; proboscis black. 



Thora.v. — Dark brown, with a broad stripe of creamy grey scales in the 

 middle; scutellum brown, with whitsh scales in the middle and black later- 

 ally; mesonotum chestnut-brown, pleurse testaceous, with patches of white 

 scales. 



Abdomen. — Covered with dark, brownish-black scales, with purplisli re- 

 flections; laterally there is a basal silvery-white spot, which partially shows on 

 the dorsum; first segment ochraceous with a patch of purple scales in the 

 middle and very pilose; venter almost entirely clothed with white scales. 



