Genus Culex. 
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Mild hind with a pale basal band, quite white in the hind legs, and 
with two blackish bands, one apical; mid and fore tarsi with a 
broad, white, basal band, except on the last joint, which is pale ; 
in the hind legs the basal bands are more distinct and whiter, 
and the last joint is white. 
Wings with testaceous veins and pale brown scales ; the 
latter do not show in all lights; first sub-marginal cell longer 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem about half 
the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior cell rather 
more than half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres 
testaceous, with slightly fuscous knob. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Habitat. — United States. Howard gives the following 
localities for America : Avalon, Anglesea, and Atlantic City, 
N. J.; Far Rockaway, Amergansett, and on the beach at Staten 
Island, N.Y.; Chesapeake Beach, Maryland ; St. Augustine and 
Charlotte Harbour, Florida; and Galapagos Islands (Snodgrass) (?), 
Jamaica (Johnson) (?). Tamsui, Formosa (C. Ford, January 8, 
1900) (?). 
Observations.— Two 9 ’ s sent by Professor Howard, one bearing 
a label with the following : “ June, 1875, Beverley, Massachusetts 
(Burgess)”; the other “ Collection, C. V. Riley.” These two 
9’s in fair order were sent with a true G. taeniorhynchus, Wied., 
under that name. The species is, however, very distinct and 
not in any way connected with Wiedemann’s C. taeniorhynchus. 
Walker’s type is in the British Museum, and is certainly a very 
well-defined species. The markings of the abdomen, the mottled 
scales on the wings (seen only in certain lights), and the differ¬ 
ence in the scales of the head will at once separate it from any 
neighbouring species. A figure in Circular No. 40, second 
series, United States Department of Agriculture, Division of 
Entomology, gives a good idea of this species, but is wrongly 
named G. taeniorhynchus. Coquillett and Arribalzaga’s synonymy 
is, therefore, wrong, and G. sollicitans must stand as a distinct 
species. Professor Howard is “ inclined to believe that this 
species is more or less specifically the sea-coast mosquito of the 
Atlantic seaboard ; it is able to breed and prefers to breed in 
the brackish swamps which are occasionally overflowed at high 
tide ” (Rept. Mosq. U.S. Bull. 25, p. 28). 
Say described a gnat under the name_CWea? damnosus from 
Pennsylvania, hundreds of miles north of Florida. G. sollicitans 
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