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Germs Culex. 40 !) 
mosquito I have seen. It is apparently a wood species. The 
specimens bear the following notes on the labels: “Rondeau 
Provincial Park, Kent Co., Ontario, from the interior of a sandy 
wood of white pine with a few hard woods”; “From grass and 
low herbs in a wood of sugar, maple, aspen, balsam and hr ’; 
“ From the interior of a wood of walnut, maple, hickory, oak, and 
many other hard woods.” Another : “ Taken at night in oak 
grove near Lake Simcoe.” A single 9 also received from Stony 
Mountain, Manitoba, has a small apical patch of white scales on 
the fourth segment. 
39. Culex testaceus. Van der Wulp. 
(Tijdsclir. voor Eat. p. 128 (1869).) 
Thorax brown, with creamy curved scales and golden hairs at 
the roots of the wings. Abdomen covered with dusky black 
scales, with creamy ones at the bases and a few at the apices 
and on the middle of the segments. Legs bright testaceous with 
small brown scales, tibiae also with creamy scales on the hind 
pair; first tarsal joints with a white band only, others dark 
brown. Wing veins testaceous. 
9 . Head dark brown, with pale curved scales in the 
middle, black upright ones behind, and flat creamy ones at the 
sides; antennae testaceous, with narrow pale bands; palpi 
testaceous, black scaled at the apices; proboscis testaceous, with 
brown and creamy scales, black at the apex and dusky at the 
base ; clypeus chestnut-brown. 
Thorax brown, with the shoulders yellowish-brown, covered 
with pale, curved, creamy scales, golden hairs at the roots of the 
wings ; scutellum brown; metathorax pale brown ; pleurae deep 
testaceous with white scales. 
Abdomen mottled with yellowish-brown and steely black, 
covered with deep, dusky, purplish-black scales, with creamy- 
yellow ones at the bases and a few at the apices of the segments, 
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and one or two dotted here and there amongst the dark ones 
(much denuded) ; first segment mottled steely black and 
yellowish-brown with white scales ; venter mostly yellowish- 
brown, a few dusky white scales remain (much denuded). 
Legs bright testaceous, the fore and mid pairs with small 
dark brown scales scattered over them ; in the hind pair the 
tibiae have numerous creamy scales and a few black ones, also 
