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head, and numerous black bristles ; eyes silvery ; clypeus chestnut-brown, nude ; 

 antennse brown ; palpi brown, with same yellow scales, white at the apex, with 

 long, dark bristles; proboscis black at the tip and base, the middle with yel- 

 lowish scales spread over the brown surface, giving the appearance of a broad, 

 yellowish band. 



Thorax. — Dark brown, with four round patches of creamy scales and a 

 few- pale ones in front of the scutellum ; pleurae with patches of grey scales ; 

 scutellum with pale, curved scales and deep brown border bristles ; mesonotum 

 deep brown, nude. 



Abdomen. — Dark brown or black, the various segments with distinct 

 creamy patches of apical scales, last segment mostly black, ventrally with pale 

 yellow and brown scales, with a few black marks. 



Wings. — Veins covered with black and white scales, with one small deep 

 black spot at the base of the third longitudinal vein where it meets the cross 

 veins. 



Legs. — ^Brown ; banded and speckled with yellowish scales, giving the legs a 

 mottled appearance; fore femora black; knee white; tibias black, spotted with 

 yellow scales; metatarsus with a basal and median band of yellow, first two 

 tarsi basally white, banded, remainder black; in the midlegs the markings are 

 the same, but there is a trace of banding on the third tarsus, and the femora 

 are whitish beneath, except at the apex; in the hind legs all the tarsal joints 

 are basally banded, ventrally are similar to midlegs. 



Bemarhs. — 11 specimens of this form were taken at the following places : 

 Nassau, June 32; Andros, June 26; Green Cay, June 26. 



CULBX NANUS Coq. 

 Culex nanus Coquillett, 1903, Can. Ent., vol. xxxv, p. 256. 



Description. — " Near jamaicensis, but much smaller, the light colored 

 scales on the tibiae not collected into spots; mesonotum without round spots 

 of yellowish scales. Black, the base of antennae, except the first joint, a band 

 at middle of proboscis, the halteres and bases of femora yellow, scales and hairs 

 of palpi black, appressed scales of occiput golden-yellow, the upright ones 

 black; scales of mesonotum golden-yellow, those of abdomen black and with 

 a broad cross-band of whitish ones on the hind margin of each segment, the 

 last two segments nearly wholly whitish scaled; scales of venter white, those 

 of femora and tibiae mixed black and whitish, the latter forming a ring nearly 



