Culex (Culex) argenteopunctatus Ventrillon.

Culex (Culex) argenteopunctatus, Ventrillon. Heptaphlebomyia argenteopunctata, Ventrillon, Arch. Parasit. ix, p. 44 6 (1905). Heptaphlebomyia kingi, Theobald, Ann. Trop. Med. vii, p. 60 1 (1913). A number of females, all in poor condition, some barely recognisable, from Tananarive (Ventrillon, Bouet, Guirin M6neville, Waterlot). A male in the British Museum named by Ventrillon lacks the abdomen, but fortunately there is another, in perfect condition, from the Gold Coast (Dr. A. Ingram). I have mounted the hypopygium of this and find t h a t it is a true Culex bearing a rather considerable resemblance to C. decens, Theo. The two silvery spots on the thorax are remarkable and absolutely diagnostic, being comparable only with certain species of Aedes, e.g., punctoihorads, Theo.Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 7, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/16354