258 MOSQinTOES of north AMERICA 



confined by the barred area. Anal gills small, shorter than the segment, bluntly 

 pointed, equal. 



Type : No. 12207, F. S. Nat. Mus. 



Mr. Busek got the larvae in an open pool in coral rock in the country. 



Barbados, West Indies. 



Barbados, July 15, 1905 (A. Busek). 



CULEX ANNULIPES (Theobald). 



Melanoconion annulipes Theobald, Mon. Culic, Iv, 512, 1907. 

 Melanoconion annuHpes Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 458, 1910. 



Obioinai. Desceiption of Melanoconion annttlipes : 



Head deep brown with grey scales; thorax deep rich brown, paler in the middle; 

 abdomen deep brown with basal white lateral spots. Legs deep brown with the 

 tarsals with apical and basal pale banding, the last hind tarsal pale yentrally. 



2- Head deep brown with long thin narrow-curved grey scales and some dusky 

 ones, the palest around the border of the eyes, numerous dark upright forked scales 

 with deep violet reflections and dull pale grey scales at the sides of the head; clypeus 

 deep brown; proboscis deep brown unhanded; palpi deep brown with long black 

 chsetae, the apical segment long; antenns deep brown, basal segment large, rather 

 paler, with almost testaceous hue on one side. 



Thorax black, clothed with scattered narrow-curved bronzy scales and black 

 chaetae, with a few almost golden ones on each side of the scutellum; scutellum paler, 

 with narrow-curved bronzy and some dull golden ones, the mid lobe with six black 

 chsetae; scutellum deep brown; pleurae deep brown with grey sheen (scales?). 



Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, with basal lateral white spots and pale golden 

 border-bristles. 



Legs deep brown, the hind legs with dull pale apical and basal bands, the last 

 segment pale beneath, showing in a marked manner, the pale banding not so distinct 

 in the fore and mid legs; ungues small, equal and simple; a whitish knee spot 

 present. 



Wings with dense large scales especially on the apical areas of the veins, some thin 

 lateral ones on the stems of the second, fourth, and on the branches of the fifth; first 

 sub-marginal cell much longer but little narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one-fifth the length of the cell; stem 

 of the second posterior cell slightly more than half the length of the ceU; posterior 

 cross-vein longer than the mid, about one and a half times its own length distant 

 from it. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



Habitat. — ^Red Hills, Jamaica, W. I. (Dr. Grabham). 



Observations. — ^A very distinct species with banded legs. The last hind tarsal 

 appears almost white in the specimen, but I think the pale scales are only on the 

 ventral aspect. Described from one perfect $. 



This species is unknown to us and there are no specimens of it in the collec- 

 tion of the National Museum. 



CULEX JANITOR Theobald. 

 Culex janitor Theobald, Mon. Culic, lii, 183, 1903. 

 Culex janitor Grabham, Can. Ent., zzzvll, 406, 1905. 



CuJex janitor Theobald and Grabham, Mosq. or Cullc. of Jamaica, 24, 1905. 

 Culex janitor Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. T. Ent Soc, xlv, 209, 1906. 

 Culex janitor Theobald, Mon. Culic, Iv, 453, 1907. 

 Culex janitor Theobald, Mon. Culic, t, 355, 1910. 



Obiginai. Cescbiftion of CtntEX jANnos: 



Thorax deep brown, with rich brown narrow-curved scales, and with a slightly 

 paler curved line on each side about the middle of the mesonotum (in some lights 

 may be seen a median dark line, in others two median parallel lines) ; abdomen in 

 the § apparently unhanded, with small basal white lateral spots, venter with broad 

 basal white bands. Fore and mid legs unhanded, hind with narrow bands, mostly 

 basal, but to some extent Involving both sides of the joints. Fork-cells rather short, 

 their bases about level. In the ^ there are basal white abdominal bands. 



?. Head deep brown, with narrow-curved creamy scales in the middle, darker at 

 the sides and very pale yellow round the eyes, with numerous black upr^ht forked 



