NO. 3557 SUBGENUS CULEX—BRAM 45 
Ventral cornu dentiform, close to the teeth of the median process. 
Median process with over 15 conglomerate teeth. Basal process 
represented by only a small, bluntly rounded knob. 
Larva: Antenna fusiform, glabrous; antennal tuft short, double, 
located on about the middle of the antenna. Postclypeal head hair 
4 long, double; upper frontal head hair 5 longer than head hair 4, 
also double; lower frontal head hair 6 long, triple; preantennal head 
hair 7 long, multiple. Mentum with about 28 very narrow, long 
teeth; the apical tooth somewhat longer and broader than the lateral 
teeth. Body glabrous. Comb with about 35 scales in a triangular 
patch; each scale rounded apically and fringed with subequal spinules. 
Siphonal index about 2.5; five multiple siphonal tufts randomly placed 
on the siphon. Pecten with about 10 long, pointed teeth on the basal 
half of the siphon; basal teeth possessing one or two fine barbs on one 
side. Anal segment completely ringed by the saddle, with several 
prominent spicules in a patch at the apex. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—Twenty-one adult males and associated 
terminalia from Brazil, four from Ecuador, one from Guatemala, 
two from Jamaica, four from Mexico, one from Nicaragua, 10 from 
Panama, three from Peru, one from Venezuela, and one from Trinidad. 
Distrisution.—This species has been reported from Brazil (Para, 
Brazil, being the type locality), Mexico, El Salvador, British Hon- 
duras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, 
Trinidad, Guianas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, 
and Uruguay. One specimen has been seen by the author in the 
U.S. National Museum collection from Cayuga, Guatemala. 
The Culex coronator Complex 
FIGurReE 11 
Culex coronator was described by Dyar and Knab (1906b) from the 
larval stage. Subsequently Dyar (1918b, 1922a, and 1925) described 
C. usquatus, C. usquatissimus, C. ousqua, and C. coronator camposi. 
The status of these species was reviewed by Dyar (1922a) and Bonne 
and Bonne-Wepster (1925). The primary differentiating characters 
were the arrangement of appendicles on the apical lobe of the basistyle 
and the length of the apical setae on the basistyle. Later Anduze 
(1943a) described C. albertoi, and C. coronator moosert was described 
by Vargas and Martinez Palacios (1954). Stone et al. (1959) including 
supplements by Stone (1961 and 1963) listed current synonymy as 
follows: C. coronator maintains species rank and includes the synonyms 
C. ousqua, C. usquatus, C. usquatissimus, and C. albertoi; C. coronator 
campost and C. coronator mooseri retain their original subspecies 
designation. 
