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MATERIAL EXAMINED.—The holotype male terminalia and its 
associated larval and pupal skins. 
DistrRIBuTION.—That of the type locality. 
Culex (Culex) declarator Dyar and Knab, 1906 
Ficurss 14a, b 
Culex (Culex) declarator Dyar and Knab, 1906b, p. 211. 
Culex (Culex) inquisitor Dyar and Knab, 1906b, p. 211. 
Culex (Culex) proclamator Dyar and Knab, 1906b, p. 211. 
Culex (Culex) jubilator Dyar and Knab, 1907a, p. 201. 
Culex (Culex) revelator Dyar and Knab, 1907b, p. 202. 
Culex (Culex) dictator Dyar and Knab, 1909a, p. 225. 
Culex (Culex) vinidcator Dyar and Knab, 1909a, p. 255. 
Culex (Culex) forattinit Correa and Ramalho, 1959, p. 55. [New synonymy.] 
SysTEeMAtTICS.—Two male terminalia of Culex declarator (RB61 
419 and RB62 444) determined by the author and confirmed by com- 
parison with the lectotype male terminalia, were sent to Dr. O. P. 
Forattini for comparison with the holotype male of C. forattini. 
Dr. Forattini found that C. forattinat was conspecific with the two 
specimens sent (personal communication, 1963). It is for this reason 
the C. forattini is here placed in synonymy with C. declarator. 
Culex declarator is very similar to C. bidens. The teeth on the 
median process of the mesosome are distinctive and diagnostic. In 
C. declarator the individual teeth are robust, curved, have somewhat 
convex margins, and are rather bluntly rounded apically. In C. 
bidens these teeth are long, straight, laterally directed, and sharply 
pointed. In both species the number of teeth may range from one 
to six. 
SALIENT CHARACTERS.—Adult female: See table 1. 
Male terminalia: Basistyle conical, slightly longer than twice the 
basal width; clothed with fine setae in addition to normal, long setal 
pattern. Apical lobe of the basistyle prominent, undivided, and 
clothed with fine setae. Appendicles of the apical lobe as follows: 
basal rod strong, pointed, and slightly curved; median and apical 
rods slightly longer than the basal rod, gently hooked at the apex; 
leaf normal, obovate, with minute longitudinal striations; one ac- 
cessory seta is gently curved and about as long as the leaf, the other 
prominently hooked and flattened apically. Dististyle normal. 
Tenth sternite crowned with a dense tuft of short, pointed spines; 
basal arm somewhat flattened and bent at an acute angle; two to 
four cercal setae present. External process lightly sclerotized, short, 
and straight. Ventral cornu dentiform, equal in size and shape to 
the teeth of the median process. Median process with one to four 
strong, curved, robust teeth. Basal process short, pointed, and di- 
rected laterally. 
