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ItLtIno1s: Herrin, August 27, 1920 (S. C. Chandler). 
Missourt: Belmont, June 14, 1918 (lL. Haseman). 
ARKANSAS: Scott, August 11, 1909 (J. K. Thibault). 
LovIsIANA: Como, August 20, 1901 (G. E. Beyer). 
ALABAMA: Mobile, June 9, 1915 (R. H. von Hzdorf). 
CULEX (CHOEROPORPA) ANIPS Dyar. 
Culex anips Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 4, p. 48, 1916. 
A small blackish mosquito, the mesonotum dark reddish brown. 
Abdomen .black above, with lateral segmental basal white spots; 
venter grayish, very indistinctly banded. Legs black, except the 
femora beneath. Wing scales narrow. Very uncharacteristically 
marked, but easily told by the distribution, being the only Culex of 
this group from the west coast of the United States. The larva is 
unknown, as also the habits of the adult. The original specimens 
were obtained from pupae collected in a large pond in the valley of 
the San Diego River, the pond deep in the middle and containing 
fish. 
Distribution —Southern California. 
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CALIFORNIA: San Diego, May 8, 1916 (H. G. Dyar). 
Subgenus MELANOCONION Theobald. 
CULEX (MELANOCONION) HOMOEOPAS Dyar and Ludlow. 
Culex (Melanoconion) homoeopas DyYAR AND LupLow, Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 9, 
p. 46, 1921. ° 
A small blackish mosquito, the mesonotum dark brown with golden 
tint. Abdomen dark, with broad whitish segmental basal bands in 
the male. Venter black, with narrow white bands at the bases of the 
segments. Wing scales narrowly ovate in the male, probably broader 
in the female. An obscurely marked species, distinguished by the 
male genitalia, and known in only a single male, captured near New 
Orleans, where it may have flown ashore from a steamer from Blue- 
fields, Nicaragua, or other southern port. 
Distribution— Unknown. 
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LovIsIanA: Jackson Barracks, October 16, 1920 (C. C. Robbins). 
Subgenus NEOCULEX Dyar. 
CULEX (NEOCULEX) TESTACEUS van der Wulp.® 
Culex testaceus VAN DER WULP, Tidsc. voor Ent., ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 128, 1867. 
Culex apicalis ADAMS, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. 2, p. 26, 1903. 
5 This species was for a long time called Culer territans; but that name has lately 
been shown to belong to another species, formerly known as Culex restuans. 
