86 MOSQUITOES 



CULEX RESTUANS Theob. 



Plate L, Fig. 1. 

 Culex restuans Theobald, 1901, Mon. Culic., vol. ii, p. 142. 



DESCRIPTION. Color. Chestnut-brown. 



Size. 5 to 6 mm. 



Head. Black, with numerous pale, creamy, curved scales, and black, 

 upright, forked ones, flat white scales at sides of head; palpi black, greyish at 

 tip; antennae with basal joint and base of second joint testaceous, remainder 

 blackish-brown. 



Thorax. Bright, chestnut-brown, short, bright, golden-brown curved 

 scales; scutellum pale; mesonotum ochraceous-brown ; pleura? pale, testaceous, 

 with four patches of white scales. 



Abdomen. Ochraceous, covered with dusky-brown scales; first segment 

 ochraceous, with two median tufts of blackish scales and long golden hairs. 



Legs. With coxa?, bases and under sides of femora almost white, remain- 

 der deep, bronzy-brown to almost black; claws equal and simple. 



Remarks. 4 specimens of this form were taken at Governors Harbor, 

 July 6. 



CULEX SERRATUS Theob. 

 Culex serratus Theobald, 1901, Mon. Culic., vol. ii, p. 45. 



DESCRIPTION. Color. Dark brown. 



Size. 5.5 to 6.5 mm. 



Head. Brown, clothed with white scales in front and in the middle, 

 brown above and white at the sides, with a few upright, yellow, forked scales ; 

 eyes purple, bordered with a narrow edge of white; antennas brown; palpi 

 black, with a few dark grey scales; proboscis black. 



Thorax. Dark brown, with a broad stripe of creamy grey scales in the 

 middle; scutellum brown, with whitsh scales in the middle and black later- 

 ally; mesonotum chestnut-brown, pleurae testaceous, with patches of white 

 scales. 



Abdomen. Covered with dark, brownish-black scales, with purplish re- 

 flections; laterally there is a basal silvery-white spot, which partially shows on 

 the dorsum; first segment ochraceous with a patch of purple scales in the 

 middle and very pilose; venter almost entirely clothed with white scales. 



