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SU últiniii .si'iíincuto aliiltiiuiíial : im liiiu- im-i-hmics lalciales, su Inng: ui^ui l",j(l. 

 Los órgiiuos gí-'uituk's (.'xteiiius tcniíiuaii cu dos lóbulos i-asi redondeados, moreno 

 ó i'ubio iiuiy claro. 



La.s costumbres de eslc Mi(is(|uito parecen diunuis, habita fu los bos(iues 

 próximos al Río Ariguauabo, Xn hemos capturado la iaiva. lli'inos capturado 

 el musípiito en esta villa. 



Número 32. — Culex falsificator, (Dyar y Knab). 



(Vi. le púy. 50). 



1' r O b O s c i s bjack, cnlai'gcd towards the apex. Oeciput clothed with 

 broad, tlat. broiizy lilack seales. a small área of narrow curved one* beliiud. A b- 

 d o m e u duU black above with transverse, basal segmeutal, dull white baads, 

 beneath yellowish scalcd, the ápices of the segments marked with indistiuct 

 palé brown bands. Wings witli the seales narrowly o^■ate ou the secoiid to 

 fuurth veins outwardly, L e g s black. 



Seven speciments, Ilavaua. Cnba. Febrnary, I."). 1IHI4 (J. I\. Taylor). 



Type lio. 12108, 1'. S. X. .M. 



Número 33. — Culex palns, (Theobald). 



(\"iilé pág. 50). 



T h O r a X : reddish-browii, with traces of dusky liues ; pleurae ochraceous. 

 Abdomeu dusky-brown, with narrow ba.sal grey bands, last segment imbauded; 

 venter and ba.se of femora grey; knee-spot and apex of hind tibiae grey. Wings 

 oí 9 with similar venatien to fatigaus. ilale palpi black, traces of one palo 

 basal band only. 



9. II e a it : bi'owii. with N'cry small narrow-cnrvcd dull golilen seales and 

 black upright forked seales on the occipnt. small Hat greyish-white on the 

 scanty small bronzy-browni hairs. . 



Thorax reddish-brown, with seauty small bronzy-brown. iiarrow-eurved 

 seales and dark brown bristles, with thin narrow curved bronzy-brown seales; 

 metanotum deep ehestnut-brown ; pleurae palé, ashy-gre^^ 



Abdomen: pallid. covered more or less seantily with tlat dusky-bruwn 

 seales; narrow basal bands of white seales and brown border-bristles, the last two 

 segments with the banding not so prominent; the basal white-sealed bands look 

 more i)rominent than they really are. owing to the few seales prcsent allowing 

 the palé integument to sliine through; venter pallid. 



L e g s: brown ; coxae, basi>, and v.ented femora palé grey; the knee-spot and 

 tibio-metatarsal joint palé, owing to an absence of scale.s; ungues small, equal 

 and simples. 



Wings: with typical brown Culex seales; first sub-marginal cell longer 

 and narrower than the second jiosterior cell, its base a little nearer the base of 

 the wing, the cell about two and a half times its own length distant froin the mid. 



II alteres palé ochraceous. 



L e n g t h. — 3 to 3 7 m|in. 



S . Darker than the 2 . Palpi brown; apical joint deep black, with black 

 hairs, a trace of palé banding on the antepenultimate segment. 



