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joints subequal, only slightly diminishing apically, the last joint somewhat 

 thickened. Middle lobe of scutellnm less produced than in the female. Abdomen 

 with the last two segments with numerous coarse bristles. Coloration as in the 

 female; wings nearly the same. Claw formula, 1.0-1.0-0.0. 



Genitalia (plate 7, fig. 49) : Side-pieces over twice as long as wide, the tips 

 rounded, the inner margin forming a setose ridge, which projects roundedly at 

 tip; inner process situated towards the base, slender, bearing two elliptical 

 bladders and a stout spine. Clasp-filament thick and stout, swollen somewhat 

 at the base and middle, one large and one smaller claw inserted at the tip in a 

 notch; outer side of the apical third hairy. Harpes broad, outer margin 

 thickened, inner membranous, weak, and shrunken, tip crowned with a dense 

 row of fine spines. Harpagones divided into 2 plates, outer one long, slender, 

 with a spatulate tip, exceeding the middle of the side-piece; inner lobe of 

 harpago an irregular plate, broad, curled, with teeth on one margin and a 

 rounded, bent point on upper angle. Unci slender, pointed, forming a narrow 

 basal cone. 



The larvae live in the water in crab-holes along the coast. Mr. Jennings ob- 

 tained them twice in such locations. 



Isthmus of Panama. 



Corozal, Canal Zone, bred from crab-hole December 11, 1907 (A. H. Jen- 

 nings) ; Cascajal Eiver, Porto Bello Bay, May 30, 1908, from crab-hole along 

 the river (A. H. Jennings). 



Group CULICINES. 



Genus CULEX Linnaeus. 



Culex Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 602, 1758. 



Culex Fabricius, Systema Entomologiae, 799, 1775. 



Culex Fabricius, Mantissa Insectorum, ii, 363, 1787. 



Culex Latreille, Pr§cfs des caract^res g6n6riques des Ins., 153, 1796. 



Culex Meigen, Illiger's Mag., ii, 260, 1803. 



Culex Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, et Ins., xiv, 284, 1805. 



Culex Fabricius, Systema Antliatorum, 33, 1805. 



Culex Meigen, Syst. Beschr. Bur. Zweifl. Ins., i, 1, 1818. 



Culex Robineau-Desvoidy, M6m. Soc. d'hist. nat. Paris, iii, 403, 1827. 



Culex Latreille, in Cuvier, R6gne Animal, v, 439, 1829. 



Culex Walker, Ins. Brit., Dipt., iii, 243, 1856. 



Culex Schiner, Fauna Austr., ii, 625, 1864. 



Culex Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, (2), iii, 1724, 1888. 



Culex Lynch ArribSlzaga (in part) , Rev. Mus. de La Plata, i, 373, ii, 157, 1891. 



Culex Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xix, 149, 1892. 



Culex Ficalbi, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., xxviii, 234, 1896. 



Culex Ficalbi, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., xxxi, 146, 1899. 



Culex Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. 25, n. s., 19, 1900. 



Culex Giles, Gnats or Mosq., 186, 1900. 



Culex Coquillett, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Circular 40, 2 ser., 4, 1900. 



Culex Theobald, Journ. Trop. Med., iv, 235, 1901. 



Culex Theobald, Mon. Culic, i, 326, 1901. 



Aedes Theobald (in part), Mon. Culic, ii, 224, 1901. 



Culex Howard, Mosquitoes, 235, 1901. 



Culex Giles, Gnats or Mosq.. 2 ed.. 335, 386, 1902. 



Culex Neveu-Lemaire, C. R. Soc. Biol. Paris, liv, 1331, 1902. 



Culex Neveu-Lemaire. M€m. Soc. Zool. Fr., xv, 209, 1902. 



Culex Johannsen, N. Y. State Mus., Bull. 68, 411, 1903. 



Culex Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 157, 1903. 



Melanoconops Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 178, 1903 (nomen nudum). 



Lasioconops Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 235, 1903. 



Melanoconion Theobald, Mon. Culic. iii, 238, 1903. 



Culex Coquillett, Rev. de Med. Trop., iv, 113, 1903. 



Culex Sergent & Sergent, Guide prat. §tud. des moust, 64, 1903. 



Melanoconion Sergent & Sergent, Guide prat. 6tud. des moust., 66, 1903. 



