Genus Culex 



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Time of appearance. — June (New Jersey, J. B. Smith), August 

 and September (E. P. Felt). 



Observations, — Redescribed from specimens sent by Professor 

 E. P. Felt. Coquillett thought it was Culex nigritulus , Zetter- 

 stedt ; I may be wrong, but the only species I could fix as 

 Zetterstedt's was redescribed in vol. ii., p. 140, of this work; 

 Coquillett evidently did not notice I did not mention in nigritulus 

 the two dark bare parallel lines seen in his salinarius, which at 

 once separates it from either Culex pipiens or C. nigritulus. It does 

 not approach either in general form, but it bears some resemblance 



Fig. 184. 



Culex salinarius. Coquillett. 



a, Siphon and anal segment : b, scale from 8th segment ; c, scales from 

 siphon comb ; d, antenna ; e, labial plate. (After Smith.) 



to C pipiens in the very short stem to the first sub-marginal 

 cell, which is, however, even smaller than in that well-marked 

 species. It looks much more like Wiedemann's fatigans with 

 the two dark bare thoracic lines, but can at once be told by the 

 cephalic scales and the short stem of the first sub-marginal cell. 



The male claspers are said to resemble those of C. pipiens. 



Professor Felt says it is a smaller species than pipiens — I 

 have had pipiens and had them from America quite as small ; 

 size is of no account in Culicidae. 



