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Legs. Dark brown, ungues equal and unserrated. 



Wings. With a dusky yellow tinge, testaceous at base ; veins clothed with 

 dark brown scales. 



Remarks. 1 specimen of this form was taken at Nassau, June 24. 



CULEX SOLLICITANS Walk. 

 Culex sollicitans Walker, 1852, Ins. Saund. Dept., vol. i, p. 427. 



DESCRIPTION. Color. Brownish. 



Size. About 6 mm. 



Head. Brown, with dense golden, curved, hair-like scales which project 

 in front of the eyes as a dense tuft of hairs ; antennas testaceous at the base, 

 black for the remainder; palpi covered with dark brown scales, and with a 

 white apex; proboscis black, with a distinct yellowish-white band in the mid- 

 dle; eyes silvery. 



Thorax. Brown, covered with golden-brown, thin, curved, scaled ; scu- 

 tellum similarly covered, and with bright, golden-brown bristles on the border ; 

 mesonotum chestnut-brown; pleuras dark brown, densely covered with white 

 scales. 



Abdomen. With creamy-white to yellow scales, forming a central broad 

 line, and with basal white bands, with a dark brown to nearly black quad- 

 rangular patch on each side of the central mass of pale scales; venter with 

 pale creamy scales. 



Wings. With testaceous veins and pale brown scales; first submarginal 

 cell longer and narrower than the second posterior cell; posterior cross-vein 

 about its own length distant from mid-cross-vein. 



Legs. Ochraceous, mottled with black and white scales, knee spot white ; 

 fore metatarsi without a basal white band. 



Remarks. 41 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Andros, June 26; Green Cay, June 29; Rum Cay, July 10; Watlings, July 13. 



CULEX TJENIORYNCHUS Wied. 



Plate L, Fig. 2. 



Culex twniorynchus Wiedemann, 1821, Dept. Exot, pt. i, p. 43. 

 DESCRIPTION. Color. Brownish. 

 Size. 5 to 5.8 mm. 



