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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Melanoconion atratus. Theobald (1901). 
Culex atratus . Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 55 (1901) ; III., 239 (1908). 
Georgetown and Hew Amsterdam, British Guiana; Barbados; 
St. Lucia; Para, Brazil; Jamaica; Trinidad. 
Additional localities. —Fort Brown, Texas ; Fort Fremont, 
S.C. ; Fort Logan H. Boots, Ark. ; Bock Island Arsenal, Ilk, 
U.S.A. (Ludlow). 
Tyjpe in the British Museum. 
Melanoconion luteopleurus. Theobald (1903). 
Mono. Culicid. III., 239 (1903). 
Para, Brazil. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Melanoconion humilxs. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 336 (1901). 
Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Additional localities. —Fort Fremont, S.C. ; Fort Logan, Col., 
Texas ; Key West Barracks, Fla. ; Fort Thomas, Ky., U.S.A.; 
Camp McKinlay, Hawaii (Ludlow). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Melanoconion juxtapallidiceps. nov. sp. 
Uniformly very dark blackish-brown; abdomen black with 
basal grey bands 
9 . Head black, with scanty dull grey narrow-curved scales 
and black upright forked scales; flat lateral scales dark, but 
with dull violet-brown tints; antennae, palpi and proboscis 
black. 
Thorax black, with narrow-curved dark bronzy scales and 
black chaetae; scutellum brown with narrow-curved dull scales 
and fine black posterior border chaetae ; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae brown. 
Abdomen black, with basal narrow grey bands and dark 
border-bristles with dull golden reflections. 
Legs black, under side of femora pale, ungues small, equal 
and simple. 
