AEDES CALOPUS 829 



mouth black: feelers brown: eyes dark red: legs brown, beset here and there with 

 silvery marks; knees and rings of feet silvery: wings somewhat gray; veins brown, 

 very thickly feathered; poisers yellow. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 

 4 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Obiginal Description of Culex inexobabilis : 



Fern. Nigro-fuscus, argenteo micans, antennis pedibusque nigris, tarsorum ar- 

 ticulis alho cinctis, alis subftiscis. 



Body dark brown, adorned with silvery luster, which especially prevails beneath 

 and on the sides of the body: mouth and feelers black; abdomen wanting: legs 

 black; each joint of the feet with a white band at the base: wings slightly brown; 

 veins dark brown; poisers yellow, with brown knobs. Length of the body 1^ line; 

 of the wings 3 lines. 



a. "West Africa. From Mr. Fraser's collection. 



Original Descbiption of Culex exagitans: 



FoEM. Fusca; albo varia; palpi nigri, apice alhi; thorax albido bivittatus ; abdo- 

 men testaceo varium, fasciis albidis maculisque lateralibus argenteis; pedes gror 

 cillimi, femoribus testaceis apice fuscis, genuhus et tarsorum fasciis argenteis; alae 

 subcinereae. 



Brown, with white spangles. Proboscis slender, curved, partly testaceous. Palpi 

 black, with silvery white tips. Thorax with two slender whitish stripes. Abdomen 

 mostly testaceous in the disk, with a whitish band at the base of each segment, and 

 with a row of silvery white dots along each side. Legs very slender; femora 

 testaceous, with brown tips; knees silvery white; tarsi with silvery bands. Wings 

 grayish; veins brown, fringed with brown hairs. Halteres testaceous? Length of 

 the body 2i^ lines; of the wings 4 lines. 



Para. 



This species much resembles C. toxorhynchus, but the latter has not the whitish 

 stripes on the thorax, nor the white dots on the abdomen. 



Original Description of Culex impatibilis : 



Mas. Subcupreo-niger, capite albo punctato, pectore albo guttato, abdomine fasciis 

 Interruptis albis, genubus albis, femoribus posticis albis apice nigris, tarsis inter- 

 mediis basi albis, tarsis posticis albo bifasciatis. alis cinereis. 



Male. Black, with a very slight cupreous tinge. Head with shining white points, 

 sheaths of the proboscis dark tawny, longer than the thorax. Pectus with shining 

 white dots. Abdomen with interrupted shining white bands, which are most com- 

 plete beneath. Knees white; hind femora white, with black tips; middle tarsi white 

 at the base; hind tarsi with two white bands. Wings cinereous; veins black, 

 fringed. Length of the body 2 lines; of the wings 3 lines. 



[Makassar, Celebes.] 



Original Description of Culex zonatipes : 



Mas. Ferruginous, pedibus fuscis, femoribus basi pallidis, genubus tarsorumque 

 fasciis quatuor albis, alis cinereis, venis nigris ciliatis. 



Very nearly allied to C. impatibilis, but distinct. 



Male. Ferruginous; proboscis about half the length of the body; legs brown; 

 femora pale at the base; knees white; tarsi with four broad white bands; wings 

 cinereous; veins black, fringed. Length of the body 2V2 lines; of the wings 4 lines. 



[Dorey, New Guinea.] 



Original Description of Culex bancrofti: 



(5". Length of antennae 0.065 inch 1.66 millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0.100 X 0.23 2.54 X 0.58 



Size of body 0.140 X 0.030 3.55 X 0.76 



Antennas very dark brown, the verticils black, about % the length of the palpi; 

 first joint of the scapus black, with silvery-white scales. Head deep brown, almost 

 black (when denuded), covered with violet-black scales, with a very small patch 

 of silvery-white on each side, some white or yellow scales in the middle, and a line 

 of silvery-white bordering the eyes. Proboscis deep violet-black, as long as the 

 palpi. Palpi deep violet-black, the four joints ringed at the base with silvery-white, 

 the first two rings much broader than the last two. Thorax very dark brown (when 

 denuded), covered with brown scales, interspersed with some brown hairs, and 

 traversed by four longitudinal silvery- white lines: the two median ones extremely 

 fine and rather indistinct, parallel, stopping at an oblong bare space in front of the 

 scutellum, the lateral ones bent at the middle, distinct, particularly the anterior half 

 which is much broader than the rest; pleurae very dark brown, spotted with numer- 



