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Legs. — Dark brown, ungues equal and unserratecl. 



Wings. — With a dusky yellow tinge, testaceous at base; veins clothed with 

 dark brown scales. 



Remarl-s. — 1 specimen of this form was taken at Xassau, June 24. 



CULEX SOLLICITANS Walk. 

 Culex solUcitans Walker, 1852, Ins. Saund. Dept., vol. i, p. 427. 



Description. Color. — Brownish. 



Size. — About 6 mm. 



Head. — Brown, with dense golden, curved, hair-like scales which project 

 in front of the eyes as a dense tuft of hairs; antennae testaceous at the base, 

 black for the remainder; palpi covered with dark brown scales, and with a 

 white apex; proboscis black, with a distinct yellowish-white band in the mid- 

 dle; eyes silvery. 



Thorax. — Brown, covered witli golden-brown, thin, curved, scaled; scu- 

 tellum similarly covered, and with bright, golden-brown bristles on the border ; 

 mesonotum chestnut-brown; pleurae dark brown, densely covored with white 

 scales. 



Abdomen. — With creamy-white to yellow scales, forming a central broad 

 line, and with basal white bands, with a dark brown to nearly black quad- 

 rangular patch on each side of the central mass of pale scales; venter with 

 pale creamy scales. 



Wi7igs. — With testaceous veins and pale brown scales; first submargiual 

 cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell; posterior cross-vein 

 about its own length distant from mid-cross-vein. 



Legs. — Ochraceous, mottled with black and white scales, knee spot white; 

 fore metatarsi without a basal white band. 



Remarks. — 41 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Andros, June 26; Green Cay, June 29; Rum Cay, July 10; Watlings, July 13. 



Culex t^niorynchus Wied. 

 Plate L, Fig. 2. 

 Culex twniorynchus Wiedemaan, 1821, Dept. Exot., pt. i, p. 43. ' 

 Description. Color. — Brownish. 

 Size. — 5 to 5.8 mm. 



