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writes me this species is not found north of Florida and 
Mexico. 
Time of capture. —British Guiana in February and July, 
St. Lucia in May. 
Observations. —Common in houses. Many of the specimens sent 
by Dr. Rowland from New Amsterdam were taken in the hospital. 
The specimens sent from St. Lucia by Dr. Gray were taken 
on the reclaimed land in the Botanic Gardens at Castries at 
6.30 p.m. In these specimens the tarsal banding is not so clear 
as in thos’e specimens from New Amsterdam, and the posterior 
cross-vein is a little more distant, but as the position of this vein 
is by no means staple in Culex it cannot be taken as of any 
specific importance, nor the magnitude of tarsal banding. A 
large series of this species has been sent from the north of South 
America and a specimen also from the United States. 
Synonymy.— I feel confident, in spite of certain discrepancies, 
that this is Wiedemann’s Culex taeniorhynchus, and not the species 
so called by Arribalzaga. Schiner (Reise der Novara, p. 31) 
evidently identified taeniorJiynchus correctly, and noticed the black 
costal border. 
In the British Museum collection Walker placed this species 
under the name taeniorJiynchus , but with it he also placed (unless, 
as I feel confident, the specimens have been wrongly returned after 
examination) a sollicitans and a titillans. Professor Howard sent 
two specimens as taeniorJiyncJms, one sollicitans , which is figured 
by him under the name taeniorJiynchus , and a true specimen of 
Wiedemann’s species. C. damnosus, Say, is also probably this 
species. 
12. Culex microannulatus. n. sp. 
(Fig. G9, PI. XVIII.) 
Thorax brown, covered with curved, golden-brown scales and 
with three rows of dark bristles ; abdomen dark brown, with 
basal greyish-white bands. Legs brown, with small yellow basal 
rings and a small white band at the apex of the femora. 
9 . Head brown, covered all over with creamy-brown curved 
scales and with long, upright, dark brown ones interspersed ; 
the pale scales form a distinct narrow pale border to the eyes. 
Eyes purple ; antennae brown, basal joint testaceous ; palpi 
covered with dark scales, but white at the tip and tawny at the 
base, with a few long dark hairs ; proboscis covered with dark 
scales and with a broad yellowish-white band about the middle. 
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