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CuLEX (CuLEX) TERRiTANs Walker. 



Culex territans Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt., i, 428, 1856. 



Ciilex restuans Theobald, Mon. Culic, ii, 142, 1901. 



Culex brehmei Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxix, 161, 1916. 



A medium sized, reddish brown mosquito, the proboscis and legs all 

 dark, or the tarsi with faint pale brownish rings at the ends of the joints. 

 Meso'notum with narrow curved bronzy brown scales, often ornamented 

 with little patches of light yellowish ones on ea,ch side of the middle; but 

 these light spots may be wanting. Abdomen blackish brown above, 

 with moderate basal segmental whitish bands, transverse a\nd eVen; 

 venter whitigh scaled, often with dusky angular transverse bands, the 

 cusps directed anteriorly. Wing-scales fine and hair-like, all brown. 



The male genitalia have the second uncal plate short and pointed, 

 without denticles. Lobe of the side piece with three rods, a seta, a leaf 

 and a seta. 



The larvae live in dirty ground puddles, and take rather readily to 

 artificial receptacles, such as water-barrels. The adults readily enter 

 houses, thus making this the common house-mosquito of eastern Canada. 



Distribution: Eastern North America, Gulf of Mexico to Canada. 



Canadian Records. 



Toronto, O^itario, August 6, 1900 (A. Gibson). 

 Ottawa, Ojitario, August 21, 1900 (J. Fletcher). 

 White River, Ontario, June 26, 1907 (F. Kinab). 



Culex (Culex) pipiens Linnaeus. 



Culex pipiens Linnaeus, Syst Nat., ed. x, 602, 1758. 



Ctilex consobrinus R.-Desvoidy, Mem. Soc. d'hist. nat. Paris, iii, 408 



1827. 

 Culex flavipes Ma)Cquart, Dipt. Exot., i, part i, 35, 1838. 

 Culex haematophagus Ficalbi, Bull. Soc. E;it. Ital., xxviii, 287, 1893. 

 Culex pollens Coquillett, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 303, 1898. 

 Culex varioannulatus Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 198, 1903. 

 Culex azoriensis Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 210, 1903. 

 Culex osakaensis Theobald ( 9 ), Mon. Culic, iv, 439, 1907. 

 Culex comitatus Dyar & Knab, Pfoc. Ent. Soc. Wash., xi, 35, 1909. 

 Culex quasiguiarti Theobald ( 9), Mon. Culic, v, 374, 1910. 



A medium sized, reddish brown mosquito, the mesonotum with 

 narrow curved reddish brown scales; legs and proboscis blackish scaled, 

 the femora pale below at base. Abdomen blackish above, with moderate 

 basal segmental whitish bands, the band at the base of the second ab- 



