288 MOSQUITOES 



Head. With golden and creamy scales, forming a groundwork, with 

 numerous black, upright, forked scales all over the occiput; eyes silvery; 

 clypeus bright brown ; antennae brown ; palpi yellowish, with black scales at 

 base and towards apex; extreme apex with white scales; proboscis dark brown, 

 with a creamy white band about its middle. 



Thorax. Dark purplish-brown, covered with golden-brown, curved, hair- 

 like scales, and some black bristles in three rows; scutellum deep purplish- 

 brown, with testaceous patches and black bristles with golden hair-like scales; 

 mesonotum chestnut-brown; pleura? deep brown, with patches of white scales. 



Abdomen. Densely covered with deep purplish-black scales, each seg- 

 ment with a narrow basal band of pale yellowish-white scales, and pure lateral 

 spots; ventrally similarly covered as the dorsum. 



Legs. Fore legs dark brown, bases of first and second tarsal joints white, 

 last two joints black; midlegs, femora black above, creamy below, metatarsus 

 basally white banded, also the first two tarsal joints ; hind legs, the metatarsus 

 and first three tarsal joints are basally white banded; the last joint pure white, 

 otherwise like midlegs. 



Remarks. 217 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Nassau, June 22, July 2 ; Andros, June 26 ; Governors Harbor, July 6 ; Powells 

 Point, July 8; Hum Cay, July 10; Watlings, July 13; Current Settle- 

 ment, July 15; Long Island, July 15. 



CULEX TERRITANS Walk. 



Plate LI, Fig. 1. 

 Culex territans Walker, Ins. Saund. Dept., vol. ii, p. 428. 



DESCRIPTION. Color. Brown. 



Size. 6 mm. 



Head. Brown, with narrow, curved, deep golden-brown scales and up- 

 right, darker, forked ones; antenna? dark-brown, testaceous at base; palpi 

 brown; proboscis brown, black at the apex. 



Thorax. Brown, with two dark lines, and covered with small curved, 

 hair-like scales of rich golden-brown' tint, and with dark brown bristles; 

 scutellum brown, pleurae brown, with a few white scales. 



Abdomen. Covered with brown scales, some paler than others, and show- 

 ing faint traces of apical bands. 



Legs. Dark brown, ungues equal and simple. 



