CULEX PKOOLAMATOR 279 



Francisco Mountains, larvae in a hollow tree, August 28, 1905; also many cap- 

 tured adults, September, 1905 (A. Busck). 



CULEX PROCLAMATOR Dyar & Knab. 

 Culex proclamator Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 206, 211, 1906. 

 Culex inquisitor Dyar & Knab (in part), Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 211, 1906. 



OBiGnsTAL Desceiption of Cuubx pkoclamatoe: 



Antennal tuft at the outer third, the member dark; head hairs in threes; body 

 pilose; tracheae broad. The subdorsal hairs of the abdominal segments are very long. 

 Air tube five times as long as wide, strongly tapered outwardly, the apical third 

 nearly straight; pecten very long and running to one-half. 



Collected by the junior author at Santa Lucrecia and Almoloya, Mexico; 

 Puntarenas, Costa Rica. 



The adults were named " Culex f salinarius Coq." and " Culex f secutor Theob." 



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 not, or scarcely beyond the middle 11 



11. Anal processes long and tapered, rather sharply pointed 13 



13. Air tube very slightly flared at tip; pecten very long, as long as the 



diameter of the tube at the middle proclamator 



Desceiption of Female, Male, and Labva of Cules pboclamatoe: 



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

 labellse conically tapered ; vestiture bronzy brown, darker at tip, a pale shade be- 

 low at middle ; sets minute, curved, black, those on labellse are more prominently 

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

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

 pilose, black, second joint slightly enlarged ; tori subspherieal, with a cup-shaped 

 apical excavation, luteous, blacHsh on inner side; hairs of whorls sparse, mod- 

 erate, black. Clypeus rounded triangular, doubly excavated at base, dark brown, 

 nude. Eyes black. Occiput brown, clothed with narrow, curved, lustrous pale- 

 brown scales, broad white ones on sides and many erect, forked brown ones on 

 vertex, margins of eyes moderately broadly white scaled ; a row of black bristles 

 along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes elliptical, remote dorsally, brown, clothed with brown setae. 

 Mesonotum light brown, with a narrow median bare stripe and two subdorsal 

 impressed paler brown lines showing on the anterior half ; vestiture of narrow, 

 curved, lustrous light-brown scales, paler around the ante-scutellar space; 

 bristles brown, numerous. Scutellum trilobate, luteous, clothed with pale shin- 

 ing scales, each lobe with a tuft of brown bristles. Postnotum elliptical, promi- 

 nent, luteous, nude. Pleurae and coxae luteous, pleura tinged with green, small 

 patches of white scales and rows of brown bristles. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, depressed, truncated at tip; dorsal vestiture dull 

 black, with a slight greenish reflection, a row of lateral basal segmental tri- 

 angular white spots, showing posteriorly from a dorsal view, and a row of narrow 

 basal bands mesially produced of dirty-white scales; first segment dark scaled 

 dorsally ; venter whitish scaled ; a row of whitish 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 shorter than its cell; basal cross- 

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

 brown, the outstanding ones linear, very dense on forks of second vein. Halteres 

 whitish. 



