302 MOSQtriTOES or north America 



area including the impressed lines on anterior half of disk also dark brown; 

 vestiture of pale golden-brown, narrow, curved scales, those around ante-seutellar 

 space paler, creamy ; several rows of coarse dark-brown setse. Scutellum trilo- 

 bate, brownish, clothed with dull-creamy scales, each lobe with a group of black 

 bristles. Postnotum elliptical, prominent, pale brown, nude. Pleurae and coxae 

 luteous, with patches of white scales and rows of brown bristles. 



Abdomen subcyUndrical, truncate at tip, segments with rather coarse pos- 

 terior setae and numerous coarse hairs beneath ; dorsal vestiture dull brownish- 

 black, with a few whitish scales along posterior margins of segments, duU-white 

 scales at sides forming a straight lateral line above lateral edges of dorsal 

 sclerites ; venter entirely dull-white scaled. 



Wings moderate, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell one-third as long 

 as its cell, that of second posterior cell nearly as long as its cell; basal cross-vein 

 distant more than its own length from anterior cross-vein ; scales dark brown, 

 with a bluish reflection on costa, the outstanding ones narrowly Ugulate, denser 

 on forks of second and fourth veins and outer half of third vein. Halteres 

 whitish, with darker knobs. 



Legs moderate ; femora pale beneath, remaining vestiture dull brown, with a 

 slight bronzy luster, paler beneath. Claw formula, 0.0-0.0-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3 mm. ; wing 3.5 mm. 



Male. — Proboscis straight, longer than in the female, slightly swollen apically, 

 dark scaled, tip and labellae pale beneath. Palpi slightly longer than proboscis, 

 slender, slightly thickened on last two joints, tip of long joint and the last two 

 joints with many rather short hairs ; vestiture black, with a slight bronzy luster. 

 Antennae rather short, plumose ; last two joints long and slender, rugose, pilose, 

 black, the others short, whitish, ringed with black at the insertions of the hair- 

 whorls ; hairs long, brown, with a silky luster. Coloration similar to the female. 

 Wings narrower than in the female, the stems of the fork-cells longer, basal 

 cross-vein more than twice its length from anterior cross-vein. Abdomen 

 elongate, depressed, somewhat broadened apically, with rather long, brownish 

 lateral ciliation. Claw formula, 1.1-1.1-0.0. 



Length : Body about 3.5 mm. ; wing 3 mm. 



Genitalia (plate 18, fig. 134) : Side-pieces over twice as long as wide, tips 

 conicaUy tapered, lateral prominence low, quadrate, bearing 3 stout rods with 

 hooked tips, two setae, a somewhat expanded appendage and a coarse seta. Clasp- 

 filament long and slender, with a stout terminal claw. Inner limb of harpes 

 bearing a tuft of long pines. Harpagones divided into a number plate. Basal 

 appendages rounded, short, setose. 



Type : Ko. 12196, U. S. National Museum. 



Bahama Islands, West Indies. 



Nassau, New Providence, July 2, 1903 (T. H. Coffin); New Providence 

 Island, February 15, 1915 (H. G, Dyar). 



Dr. Dyar obtained the larvae in natural shallow pools in coral rock, but too 

 late for the insertion of a description in this work. 



CXTLEX SIMULATOR Dyar & B:nab. 



Culex simulator Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, 207, 218, 1906. 

 Origii^al Descbiption of Culhs simttlatob: 



Antennae with the tuft at outer third, dark; upper head tuft double, lower single; 

 body smooth; lateral hairs single on the second abdominal segment, double on the 

 third to sixth; trachese narrow. Air tube 7X1, slightly flared at tip, with Ave tufts 

 on the posterior margin; pecten very long, reaching one-third; lateral comb of the 

 eighth segment scarcely over two rows deep. Anal segment long. 



Taken by Mr. Busck in Arima, Trinidad, in the primeval woods. No adults were 

 obtained. 



