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tered brown scales, as also are the sides; scutellum brownish, with' creamy 

 scales, and a border of golden-brown bristles; pleurae chestnut-brown, with 

 patches of white scales. 



Abdomen. — Dark brown, with violet reflections; median line of ochre 

 scales, which are thickest at the bases of the segments; venter covered with 

 creamy-yellow scales. 



Wings. — With submarginal cell longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior, its stem equal to about two-thirds of the cell. 



Legs. — Covered with deep brown scales; femora whitish. 



Remarhs. — 102 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Nassau, June 22, July 2; Andros, June 26; Tarpum Bay, July 2; Current 

 Settlement, July 5; Powells Point, July 8; Long Island, July 15; Watlings 

 Island, July 13. 



CULEX CYANESCENS Coq. 

 Culex cyanescens Coquillett, 1902, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. x, p. 46. 



Description. — " Black ; stems of halteres and femora, except their 

 apices, yellow; occiput rather densely covered with broad, appressed, yellow 

 scales, and narrow, upright, yellow ones changing to black at the sides and 

 posterior edge, a spot of violet-blue appressed scales near middle of each outer 

 edge of the occiput; palpi covered with broad, appressed, brassy-yellow scales, 

 the spots at the posterior angles of the segments considerably produced forward 

 at their inner ends; scales at apices of femora, on hind tibiae and front side of 

 the others; also on tarsi, violet-blue; tarsal claws large, one-toothed; wings 

 greyish hyaline, veins chiefly blue; lateral scales narrow and elongate, petiole 

 of first submarginal cell four-fifths as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein 

 about its own length from the small one. Length 4 to 5.5 mm." 



Remarhs. — One specimen of this form was taken at Tarpum Bay, July 7. 



CuLEX jAMAicENSis Theob. 

 Plate XIJX, Fig. 2. 

 Culex jamaicensis Theobald, 1901, Men. Culic, vol. i, p. 345. 

 Description. Color. — Dark brown or black. 

 Size. — Medium sized, 4.5 to 5.5 mm. 



Head. — Brown, with scattered, curved, cinereous scales, and black, up- 

 right, forked ones, white and black, upright, forked ones at the sides of the 



