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Culex (Culex) pruina Theobald 
Culex pruina Theobald, 1901, Liverpool School Trop. Med., Mem. IV, App., p. vill (2 3; S. 
Nigeria). Edwards, 1911, Bull. Ent. Res., II, p. 263; 1912, loc. cit., III, pp. 33 and 381 (larva); 
1914, loc. cit., V, 1, p.73(*). Maefie and Ingram, 1916, loc. cit., VI, 1, p. 7, fig. 6 (larva and 
pupa). 
Culex pruinosus Theobald, 1901, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ II, p. 332, figs. 311-312 ( 9 @). 
Culex pallidothoracis Theobald, 1909, Colonial Office (London), Miscell. No. 237, p. 17, figs. (on 
pp. 27 and 29) ( 9 #; Obuasi, Gold Coast); 1910, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) V, p. 877 ( 2 0); 
1910, “Monogr. Culic.,’ V, p. 370, figs. 164-165 ( 9 &*). 
Liseria. — Lenga Town, August 1926. Paiata, October 1926. 
At Lenga Town, this species was bred from larvae found in a hole of a fallen 
tree in a forest clearing, together with those of Culex decens and Lutzia tigripes. 
Two different larvae have been attributed to Culex pruina. 
C. pruina is a West African species, extending from Liberia to the Belgian 
Congo. 
Culex (Culex) quasigelidus Theobald 
Culex quasigelidus Theobald, 1903, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ III, p. 181, fig. 95, Pl. XIII ( 9 #; Entebbe, 
Uganda). Wesché, 1910, Bull. Ent. Res., I, p. 38, Pl. VII, figs. 5-9 (larva and pupa). Edwards, 
1911, loc. cit., I, p. 258, figs. 3, 4a, and 5a ( 2 o); 1912, loc. cit., ILI; pp. 29 and 381 (arva). 
Ingram and Macfie, 1919, loc. cit., X, p. 66, fig. 6 (larva and pupa). 
Lasioconops poicilipes Theobald, 1903, Liverpool School Trop. Med., Mem. X, App. p. ix ( 9; 
Bonny, 8. Nigeria, and Gambia); 19038, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ III, p. 236, fig. 124 ( ¢). 
Culex taeniorhynchoides Giles, 1904, Jl. Trop. Med., VII, p. 369 ( 9; Benguela). 
Pseudoheptaphlebomyia madagascariensis Ventrillon, 1905, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, XI, p. 427 
(9; Tananarive, Madagascar). 
Taeniorhynchus tenax var. maculipes Theobald, 1905, First Rept. Wellcome Res. Lab. Khartoum, 
(1904), p. 79, fig. 4, Pl. IV, fig. 4, and Pl. VI, fig. 4( 9; Kenissa on the White Nile and Middle 
Sobat, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). 
Aporoculex punctipes Theobald, 1907, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ IV, p. 316, fig. 110 ( 9; Chinde, Nyasa- 
land). 
Culex par Newstead, 1907, Ann. Trop. Med. Paras., I, p. 25, Pl. I, fig. 11 ( ¢; Tshumbiri, Belgian 
Congo). 
Culex auritaenia Enderlein, 1920, Wien. Ent. Zeitg., XX XVIII, p. 49 ( 9%; Tananarive, Mada- 
gascar). 
BEeLGIan Conceo. — On the Congo River, specimens having been taken on 
board ship at Lukolela and Irebu, December 1926. 
C. quasigelidus is widely spread in the Ethiopian Region and Madagascar, 
extending also into Lower Egypt. 
Culex (Culex) duttoni Theobald 
Culex duttont Theobald, 1901, Liverpool School Trop. Med., Mem. IV, App., p. v ( 2 a; Conoes 
Creek, Duketown, 8. Nigeria); 1901, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ II, p. 318, fig. 302 ( 9). Wesché, 
1910, Bull. Ent. Res., I, p. 34, Pl. V, figs. 2-4 (larva and pupa). Edwards, 1911, loc. cit., 
II, p. 259, fig. 46; 1912, loc. cit., III, pp. 31 and 379 (larva). 
Culex dissimilis Theobald, 1901, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ I, p. 376, figs. 130-131, Pl. XVII, fig. 67 ( ¢ o: 
Freetown, Sierra Leone). 
Culex hirsutipalpis Theobald, 1901, ‘Monogr. Culic.,’ I, p. 378, figs. 182-134 (9 3; Salisbury, 
S. Rhodesia). : 
Culex anarmostus Theobald, 1903, Liverpool School Trop. Med., Mem. X, App., p. vi (9; Free- 
town, Sierra Leone, and Gambia). 
Culex albovirgatus Graham, 1910, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) V, p. 264 (9; West Africa). 
