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due to that circumstance. The method of mounting described above has, in 

 addition to much greater reliability, the considerable advantage of keeping the 

 mount and the rest of the specimen together. The figures here given (except 

 figs. 5 and 6) have been prepared from such mounts. 



Culex fatigans, Wied. 



C. fatigans, Wied., Auss. Zweifi. Ins., p. 10 (1828). 



C. quasipipiens, Theo., Mon. Cul. ii, p. 136 (1901). 



C. fouchowensis, Theo., Mon. Cul. ii, p. 137 (1901). 



? C t reesii, Theo., Mon. Cul. ii, p. 145 (1901). 



? C. sericeus, Theo., Mon. Cul. ii, p. 147 (1901). 



C. osakensis, Theo. (c? only), Mon. Cul. iv, p. 439 (1907). 



G. christoplier si, Theo., Mon. Cul. iv, p. 453 (1907). 



C. quinquefasciatus, D. & K. (? nee Say), Proc. Ent. Soe. Wash, xi, p. 34 



(1909). * 

 C, goughii, Theo. (<$ only), U.S. Afr. Dept. Agric, First Kept. Vet. Res., 



p. 268 (1911). 

 The types of C. reesii and C. sericeus are in Dr. Rees' collection at Hong Kong, 

 but though I have been unable to examine them, I have little doubt that they are 



Fig. 4. — Culex fatigans, Wied. 

 Basal parts (harpes and harpagones) from above. 



C. fatigans, which is very common in that locality. The male types of C. quasi- 

 pipiens, C. fouchoivensis, C. osakensis, C. christophcrsi and C. goughii I have 

 examined, and they are certainly C. fatigans. There seems to be insufficient 

 justification for Dyar and Knab's replacement of the name fatigans by quint [ ue- 

 fasciatus, Say, and it is therefore reinstated, for the present at least. Say's 

 description of the thorax of C. quinqucfasciatus indicates an Anopheles rather 

 than a Culex, and Wiedemann, who stated that he had seen most of Say's original 

 specimens, referred the species to Anopheles. Howard examined some of Say's 

 specimens in the Vienna museum, all of which were Culex of the pipiens group, 

 but there is nothing to show that these are the examples on which the description 

 was based. 



