Genus Culex, 
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Culex sylvestris. Theobald (1901). 
Culex montcalmi. Blanchard (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. I., 406 (1901). 
Canada. 
Additional localities. —Boston Harbour, Mass.; Fort Etham 
Ateen, Yer. ; Huntingdon, Term. Fort, Leavenworth, Kan. ; 
Fort Mackenzie, Wyo. ; Montana; New York ; Sequora Hat. 
Park, Cal.; Westlawn Cemetery, Ohio; Fort Duchesne, Utah; 
Fort Hancock, Ill. ; Jeffersson Barracks, Mo. ; Fort Lincold, 
N.D. ; Fort Snelling, Miss. ; Virginia; Fort Williams, Me. ; 
Washington Barracks, D.C., U.S.A. (Ludlow). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex testaceus. Van der Wulp (1867). 
Tijdschr. voor Ent. 128 (1867), Van der Wulp; Mono. Culicid. 
I., 409 (1901), Theobald. 
Westshore, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; Wisconsin, 
U.S.A., etc. 
Culex vagans. Wiedemann (1828). 
Auss. Europ. Zweifliig. Ins., p. 545 (1828), Wiedemann; Mono. Culicid. 
I., 411 (1901), Theobald; Phil. Jour. Sci. I., 9, 988 (1906), Banks. 
$. Head brown with pale scales; palpi longer than pro¬ 
boscis by about the apical segment, which is slightly shorter 
than the penultimate, deep brown, the last two segments with 
bright basal creamy hands and flaxen-brown and brown hair 
tufts, long on the inner side of the penultimate segment and a 
long dark tuft on the apex of the ante-penultimate, which is 
swollen, two other broad pale bands below. Antennae brown 
with pale internodes and flaxen brown plume hairs. 
Thorax deep, rich brown with small narrow-curved golden 
brown scales ; scutellum with paler narrow-curved scales, larger 
in size, with brown border-bristles ; metanotum brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, almost black, with basal white bands ; 
hairy, hairs pale brown ; basal lobes of genitalia very hairy, 
claspers broadish with a large spine on each side near apex 
giving a bifurcate appearance and with dense fine hairs all along 
the outer edge. 
Legs deep brown, paler at the base with basal pale bands ; 
ungues of fore and mid pairs unequal, uniserrate, the mid pair 
large (hind? uniserrate). 
