aRT. 1. MOSQUITOES OF THE UNITED STATES—DYAR. 17 
with moderate basal segmental whitish bands, separated from the 
lateral spots. Wing scales narrow and hairlike, wholly dark. 
The male genitalia have the third plate of the mesosome pointed 
and straight, the second plate very long and straplike. 
The larvae occur in artificial receptacles by preference, but are also 
found in ground pools, even far from habitations. 
This is the common house mosquito of the Tropics, extending in 
America to about latitude 35° north and south. 
Distribution—tTropical countries throughout the world. 
United States Records. 
DistTRicT oF CoLUMBIA: Washington, November 4, 1903 (W. V. Warner). 
Vireinia: Alexandria, September 23, 1899 (KF. C. Pratt). 
SoutH CAROLINA: Columbia, September 12, 1908 (W. H. Sligh). 
GEORGIA: Myrtle, August 26, 1906 (A. A. Girault). 
FLoripa: Jacksonville, June 20, 1906 (H. Byrd). 
Key West, June 7, 1903 (KE. A. Schwarz). 
KENTUCKY: Richmond, August 25, 1904 (H. S. Barber). 
TENNESSEE: Columbia, August 16, 1904 (H. S. Barber). 
MiIssisipr1: Magnolia, July 19, 1901 (G. W. Herrick). 
LovIsiIaAna: Baton Rouge, December 5, 1904 (I. 8. G. Titus). 
OuHI0; Cincinnati, September 21, 1904 (T. H. C.). 
ILLinors: Cairo, July 25, 1904 (H. S. Barber). 
Missouri: St. Louis, May 138, 1906 (Capt. Chamberlain). 
Kansas: Lawrence, July (HE. S. Tucker). 
ARKANSAS: Hot Springs, October 1, 1900 (A. Wright). 
TExaAsS: Corpus Christi, October 20, 1905 (F. C. Pratt). 
ARIZONA: Fort Yuma (KE. E. Wilcox). 
Catirognia: Coachella, June 9, 1906 (A. N. Caudell). 
CULEX (CULEX) PIPIENS Linnaeus. 
Culex pipiens LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 602, 1758. 
Culex consobrinus RoBinrAu-Drsyoipy, Mem. Soe. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 
3, p. 408, 1827. 
Culex flavipes MAcQuart, Dipt. Exot., vol. 1, pp. 1, 35, 1838. 
Culex haematophagus Ficast, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., vol. 28, p. 287, 1893. 
Culex pallens CoquiLtETtT, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 308, 1898. 
Culex varioannulatus THEOBALD, Mon. Culic., vol. 3, p. 198, 1903. 
Culex azoriensis THEOBALD, Mon. Culic., vol. 8, p. 210, 1903. 
Culex osakaensis THEOBALD (female), Mon. Culic., vol. 4, p. 439, 1907. 
Culex comitatus DyaR and KwNap, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 11, p. 35, 1909. 
Culex quasiguiarti THEOBALD (female), Mon. Culic., vol 5, p. 374, 1910. 
A medium-sized reddish brown mosquito, the mesonotum with nar- 
row curved reddish brown scales; legs and proboscis blackish scaled, 
the femora pale below at base. Abdomen blackish above, with moder- 
ate basal segmental whitish bands, joining the lateral spots, the band 
at the base of the second abdominal segment somewhat triangular. 
Wing scales narrow and hairlike, wholly dark. 
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