Genus Culex. 
Ill 
100. Culex territans. Walker. 
(Ids. Saund. p. 428.) 
Thorax brown, clothed with deep golden-brown scales and 
with two median dark lines; abdomen brown, with whitish 
hinder borders; legs brown, unbanded; ungues equal and 
simple. 
9 . Head brown, with narrow curved deep golden-brown 
scales and upright darker forked ones; antennae dark brown, 
testaceous at the base; palpi brown; proboscis brown, black at 
the apex. 
Thorax brown, with two dark lines, and covered with small, 
curved hair-like scales of a rich golden-brown tint and with 
dark brown bristles; scutellum brown, with dark bristles; 
metanotum brown; pleurae brown, with a few white scales. 
Abdomen covered with brown scales, some paler than others, 
and showing very faint traces of apical bands, scarcely percep¬ 
tible ; posterior border-bristles pale brown to golden brown. 
Legs dark brown, bases and venter of the femora pale brown ; 
coxae chestnut-brown, with a few white scales; knee spots 
creamy-white ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with narrow, long, lateral, brown scales, and with the 
first sub-marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than 
the second posterior cell, its stem very short, as in C. pipiens, its 
base much nearer the base of the wing than that of the second 
posterior cell, and overlapping the junction of the sub-costal and 
costal; posterior cross-vein more than its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein; halteres with pale brown stem and 
dark brown knob. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Habitat .—United States. 
Observations. — Redescribed from Walker’s type in the 
Museum. The apical abdominal banding is very indistinct in 
the specimen, and was probably more marked when fresh. 
I have not seen any fresh specimens. Coquillett states that it 
is apparently a synonym of C. pungens , but the pale, apical, 
abdominal banding at once separates it from that species. 
