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Ficure 22.—C. mauesensis (drawn after Lane, 1945): a, apical lobe of basistyle; b, meso- 
some. C. maxi, Bahia, Brazil, USNM RB62 209: ¢, basistyle and dististyle; d, mesosome. 
Culex (Culex) mollis Dyar and Knab, 1906 
Figures 23, 24a-f 
Culex (Culex) mollis Dyar and Knab, 1906a, p. 171. 
Culex (Culex) lateropunctata Theobald, 1907, p. 458. 
Culex (Culex) equivocator Dyar and Knab, 1907, p. 203. 
Culex (Culex) elocutilis Dyar and Knab, 1909a, p. 255. 
Culex (Culex) lepostenis Dyar, 1923b, p. 70. 
Culex (Culex) tisseutlli Senevet, 1937, p. 375. [New synonymy.] 
SysTEMATICS.—Senevet (1937) described Culez tisseuilli from French 
Guiana and recognized that it was extremely close to C. mollis. The 
primary distinguishing character was the reduced number of teeth 
on the median process of the mesosome. All available male specimens 
of C. mollis were examined to determine variation in the number of 
teeth. Figure 23 summarizes data from this investigation. X is the 
