Genus Culex. 177 
Observations.—Described from a single perfect male. It is a 
very distinct species, resembling at first sight Stegomyia fasciata, 
but easily distinguished by the absence of banding on the fore 
and mid legs, but especially by the scale structure, which shows it 
to be a typical Culew, the scales of the head and scutellum being 
narrow-curved ones, not flat as in the genus Stegomyia. 
Dr. Lutz sent me this specimen, stating it to be a “ bromelia 
feeder.” 
CULEX PLEURISTRIATUS. n.sp. (Lutz MS.) 
Thorax rich brown, ornamented with creamy golden and 
black scales ; pleurae very pale, with two broken parallel brown 
lines. Abdomen deep brown, with basal lateral white spots. 
Proboscis black, unbanded. Legs deep brown, the fore unbanded, 
the mid and the hind with very narrow pale basal bands. 
@. Head ornamented, with narrow-curved silvery-white 
scales on the crown and front, the sides with flat white, and 
then flat ochraceous and brown scales, the upright forked scales 
in tne middle are bright ochraceous, with a patch of jet black 
ones on each side ; palpi, proboscis and antennae black. 
Thorax brown, ornamented with creamy, golden and black 
narrow-curved scales as follows: The creamy ones forming a line 
on each side in front and a patch in front of the bare space in 
front of the scutellum and on each side of it ; the golden scales 
form more or less a median area anteriorly, the spaces between 
which are rich brown, having small jet-black curved scales ; 
scutellum brown, with narrow-curved pale scales and a few black 
ones ; six border-bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum brown ; 
pleurae pallid grey, with a broad dark line over the base of the 
legs and another more irregular one above it; there are also 
grey flat scales on the pleurae. 
Abdomen black, the first segment nude, with two patches of 
black scales, the second segment with a median basal white 
patch, the third unadorned, the next four with basal lateral 
white spots, which in some specimens spread out and almost form 
narrow bands ; border-bristles pale golden; the fourth segment: 
has a median pale bristle ; in one specimen the first, second and: 
third segments have median white spots; venter brown; with 
basal white ornamentation ; legs deep blackish-brown, with the 
coxae very pale grey ; the fore legs usually unbanded, the mid 
_and the hind have narrow white basal bands to some or allof 
the tarsi and metatarsi ; ungues small, equal and. simple. - 
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