284 MOSQUITOES 



head, and numerous black bristles ; eyes silvery ; clypeus chestnut-brown, nude ; 

 antennae brown; palpi brown, with same yellow scales, white at the apex, with 

 long, dark bristles; proboscis black at the tip and base, the middle with yel- 

 lowish scales spread over the brown surface, giving the appearance of a broad, 

 yellowish band. 



Thorax. Dark brown, with four round patches of creamy scales and a 

 few pale ones in front of the scutellum ; pleurae with patches of grey scales ; 

 scutellum with pale, curved scales and deep brown border bristles; mesonotum 

 deep brown, nude. 



Abdomen. Dark brown or black, the various segments with distinct 

 creamy patches of apical scales, last segment mostly black, ventrally with pale 

 yellow and brown scales, with a few black marks. 



Wings. Veins covered with black and white scales, with one small deep 

 black spot at the base of the third longitudinal vein where it meets the cross 

 veins. 



Legs. Brown ; banded and speckled with yellowish scales, giving the leg's a 

 mottled appearance; fore femora black; knee white; tibiae black, spotted with 

 yellow scales; metatarsus with a basal and median band of yellow, first two 

 tarsi basally white, banded, remainder black; in the midlegs the markings are 

 the same, but there is a trace of banding on the third tarsus, and the femora 

 are whitish beneath, except at the apex; in the hind legs all the tarsal joints 

 are basally banded, ventrally are similar to midlegs. 



Remarks. 11 specimens of this form were taken at the following places: 

 Nassau, June 22; Andros, June 26; Green Cay, June 26. 



CULEX NANUS Coq. 



Culex nanus Coquillett, 1903, Can. Ent., vol. xxxv, p. 256. 



DESCRIPTION. " Near jamaicensis, but much smaller, the light colored 

 scales on the tibiae not collected into spots; mesonotum without round spots 

 of yellowish scales. Black, the base of antennae, except the first joint, a band 

 at middle of proboscis, the halteres and bases of femora yellow, scales and hairs 

 of palpi black, appressed scales of occiput golden-yellow, the upright ones 

 black; scales of mesonotum golden-yellow, those of abdomen black and with 

 a broad cross-band of whitish ones on the hind margin of each segment, the 

 last two segments nearly wholly whitish scaled; scales of venter white, those 

 of femora and tibiae mixed black and whitish, the latter forming a ring nearly 



