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Subgenus CULEX Linnaeus. 
Group CORONATOR. 
CULEX (CULEX) CORONATOR Dyar and Knab. 
Culex coronator Dyar and Knap, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. 14, p. 215, 1906. 
Culer (Culex) usquatus Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 6, p. 122, 1918. 
A medium-sized blackish mosquito, with brown mesonotum, usually 
unornamented. Proboscis dark above in the female, ringed with 
white in the male. Abdomen black above, with rather narrow basal 
segmental white bands, widening in the middle; venter whitish, with 
few black scales toward apices of segments. Legs blackish, the 
femora and tibiae white on the under side; tarsi ringed with white 
at both ends of the joints, usually narrowly so. 
The larvae are common in ground puddles in the open country. 
No observation of the insect biting are of record. 
Distribution.—North coast of South America from the Guianas to 
Panama, Central America, Mexico, southern Texas. 
United States Records. 
TEXAS: San Benito, August 21, 1920 (H. G. Dyar). 
Group PIPIENS. 
CULEX (CULEX) QUINQUEFASCIATUS Say. 
Culex quinquefasciatus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., vol. 3, p. 10, 1823. 
Culex pungens WIEDEMANN (not Robineau-Desvoidy), Auss. Zweifl. Ins., 
vol. 1, p. 9, 1828. 
Culex fatigans WIEDEMANN, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 9, 1828. 
Anopheles ferruginosus WIEDMANN, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 12, 1828. 
Culex cubensis Bicor, Hist. fisc. Ins. Cuba, vol. 7, p. 329, 1856. 
Culex penafieli WILLISTON, La Naturaleza, vol. 7, p. 326, 1887. 
Culex skusii Gites, Gnats or Mosq., p. 292, 1900. 
Culex quasipipiens THEOBALD, Mon. Culic., vol. 2, p. 136, 1901. 
Culex fouchowensis THEOBALD, Mon. Culic., vol. 2, p. 137, 1901. 
Culex osakaensis THEOBALD (in part), Mon. Culic., vol. 4, p. 439, 1907. 
Culex christopherii THEOBALD, Mon. Culic., vol. 4, p. 453, 1907. 
Culex aikenii Dyar and Knap, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, p, 61. 1908. 
Culex lachrimans Dyar and KNaB, Smith. Misc. Colls., Quart. iss., vol. 52, 
p. 295, 1909. 
Culex revocator Dyar and Knas, Smith. Mise. Colls., Quart. iss., vol. 52, 
p. 256, 1909. 
Culex goughii THEOBALD (part), Union S. Africa, Dept. Agr., Ist Rept. Vet. 
Res., p. 269, 1911. 
Culex aseyehae Dyar and Knap, Ins, Ins. Mens., vol. 3, p. 112, 1915. 
A medium-sized reddish-brown mosquito, the mesonotum with 
narrow curved reddish-brown scales; legs and proboscis blackish 
scaled, the femora pale brown at base. Abdomen blackish above, 
