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tip ; an outer row of cilia from a long collar; a row of conical prominences within 

 outer margin, each bearing a tuft of short hairs; dentition within margin, a 

 single stout tooth with a row of thick spines below ; a long smooth filament, a 

 serrate one and a row of short hairs within ; process below continuous with outer 

 margin, obscurely furcate, with a row of hairs above and a tuft at tip of each 

 limb ; basal angle narrowly prominent, within with a row of stout hairs with 

 divided tips, in line with a row of similar longer basal hairs. Maxilla elongate, 

 conically rounded at tip, divided by a suture ; inner half with a row of long 

 hairs on margin, two short rows of cilia within and a short stout articulated 

 spine near tip ; a row of long hairs at tip running down along the suture almost 

 to base; outer half with two small filaments at basal fourth. Palpus rudi- 

 mentary, with four long apical digits. Thorax rounded, wider than long; abdo- 

 men moderate, anterior segments shorter; skin glabrous. Air-tube conically 

 tapered, arcuate on posterior margin, three times as long as wide ; pecten of long 

 sparse spines, reaching over basal third; single spine densely serrate on one 

 side; nine long hair-tufts on posterior margin, three of them within pecten; a 

 pair of large recurved hooks at tip, each with a median tooth. Lateral comb of 

 eighth segment of eight long smooth spiaes ia a straight row. Anal segment 

 longer than wide, ringed by the plate ; ventral brush confined to the barred area ; 

 anal gills slender, about as long as the segment. 



Life history and habits unknown. 



Island of Cuba, West Indies. 



Havana, October, November 1, 1903 (J. E. Taylor) ; San Antonio de los 

 Banos (J. H. Pazos). 



CULEX C0RRI6ANI Dyar & Knab. 



Culex corrigani Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Bnt. Soc, xv, 203, 1907. 

 Culex corrigani Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart. Iss., lii, 69, 1908. 

 Culex corrigani Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 614, 1910. 



ObIGINAI. DeSCEIPTION of CtTLEX COEEIGANi: 



5. — Proboscis long and slender, distinctly swollen at the apex, black scaled, not 

 ringed; palpi very short, brown scaled, occiput brown scaled, the eyes with distinct 

 white margins; mesonotum rather light-brown scaled, with a darker shade on the 

 posterior portion and with many long coarse black bristles; metanotum very light 

 brown; pleura pale greenish; abdomen somewhat depressed, truncate at the tip, 

 clothed above and at the sides with black scales w'ith a brownish luster, beneath 

 greenish-white scaled along the median line; legs black with bronzy luster, claws 

 simple; scales of the wing-veins brown, long and narrow. Length, 3 mm. 



One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, collector), bred 

 from larvae in water in bamboo joints. 



Type. — No. 10870, U. S. National Museum. 



Named, at the suggestion of Mr. Busck, in honor of Mr. John Corrigan, Sanitary 

 Inspector of Tabernilla. 



The larva is allied to that of Culex conservator Dyar & Knab, but differs in the 

 long slender antennae on which the tuft is placed very near the apex, and in having 

 six single hairs on the air-tube. 



Desckcption of Female and Larva of Citueix coRRioArn (Maue UnknownJ : 



Female. — Proboscis moderately long, slender, enlarged at tip, clothed with 

 rough black scales, sets rather long, outstanding, sparse, labellae small, conically 

 tapered. Palpi small, about one-seventh as long as proboscis, blackish scaled. 

 Antennae moderate, joints subequal, rugose, pilose, black; hairs of whorls sparse, 

 moderate, black. Clypeus short, rounded, dark brown, with a white prui- 

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

 scales and numerous erect, forked, long pale-brown scales all over surface, a 

 row of flat white scales along margins of eyes, cheeks not differentiated; two 

 coarse black bristles projecting forward between eyes, some fine black setas along 

 margins of eyes. 



