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CULEX CARMODYJE Dyar & Knab. 



Culex carmodyw Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Bnt. Soc, xiv, 206, 210, 1906. 

 Obiginal Description of Culex carmodyw: 



Antennse normal, pale at base. Body pilose; lateral hairs In twos after the second 

 segment; subdorsal hairs long and in twos on segments 5, 6 and 7; trachese broad. 

 Air tube five to seven times as long as wide with the three tufts in twos, the basal 

 very long, the others successively shorter. Comb of the eighth segment normal, 

 moderate. 



Collected by Mr. Busck in San Domingo from a vase in the hotel parlor and in a 

 slowly running water course across a road. The adults were named " Culex sali- 

 narius Coq." and " Culex pipiens L.," neither of which species occurs in the island to 

 our knowledge. We name the species for Miss Mary Carmody, who has done excellent 

 and faithful work in drawing the mouth parts of larvae, and is withal a most amiable 

 young lady. 



The following is an abstract of the table : 



1. Antennae with the tuft outwardly placed, the part beyond slender. . 5 



5. Air tube four times as long as wide or over 7 



7. Anal appendages four, normal 8 



8. Air tube with three paired tufts posteriorly outwardly, the middle 



one moved laterad out of line, usually situated near or not much 

 beyond the middle of the tube 9 



9. Body spicular or pilose 10 



10. Dislocated tuft of tube well beyond the middle carmodycB 



Desceiftion of Femat.e, Male, awd Laeva or Culex cakmodt^ : 



Female. — Proboscis moderate, subcylindrical, slightly expanding to tip, 

 labellse conically tapered; vestiture black with bronzy luster, a pale shade be- 

 neath at middle ; setae minute, curved, black, those on labellae more prominently 

 outstanding. Palpi small, slender, one-fifth as long as proboscis, black, with 

 a few outstanding setse. Antennae with the basal joints somewhat shorter, 

 rugose, pilose, black, second joint slightly enlarged; tori subspherical, with a 

 cup-shaped apical excavation, luteous, blackish on inner side; hairs of whorls 

 sparse, moderate, black. Clypeus rounded triangular, doubly excavated at base, 

 dark brown, nude. Eyes black. Occiput brown, clothed with narrow, curved, 

 lustrous pale-brown scales on vertex, the sides with flat ones, cheeks and narrow 

 margin of eyes white, many erect, forked black scales on nape ; a row of black 

 bristles along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, pale brown with black setae. 

 Mesonotum brown, with two dorsal impressed paler brown lines showing on 

 anterior half; vestiture of short, hair-like, lustrous brown scales not obscuring 

 the ground-color; bristles black, numerous, rather short. Scutellum trilobate, 

 luteous, with a few bronzy hair-like scales, each lobe with a tuft of blackish 

 bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, luteous, nude. Pleurae and coxffi 

 luteous with rows of small brown bristles. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, truncated at tip ; dorsal vestiture dull black with a 

 slight greenish-metallic reflection, a row of lateral basal segmental triangular 

 dull-white spots showing posteriorly from a dorsal view; venter whitish, with 

 transverse, slightly triangular black bars near tips of segments; a row of yel- 

 lowish hairs at tip of each segment dorsally. 



Wings moderate, hyaline ; petiole of second marginal cell about one-fourth as 

 long as its cell, that of second posterior cell a little shorter than its cell ; basal 

 cross-vein about its own length distant from anterior cross-vein ; scales blackish 

 brown, black on costa, with blue and bronzy luster, the outstanding ones broadly 

 linear, very dense on forks of second vein. Halteres whitish. 



Legs slender, moderate, femora whitish beneath almost to tip ; tibise and tarsi 

 brownish black, with a slight pale-bronzy reflection beneath, hind tarsi with 



