NKW ArOSQUITdES FIUIM THE STDAN 
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This large mosquito has been sent hy Mr. King from Erkowit, where any numher of tliem 
were seen in Eehruary. 
It is [U'ol.iably widely distril)utud over Africa as well as Southern Europe and various 
(.)ceanic Islands, as iNIadeira, Teneriffe, Santa C'.ru/,, St. Michael’s, Azores, and the 
Mediterranean Islands. In -Vfriea it has now la;en recorded from Egypt, the Sudan, the 
Transvaal, the Gape, and Algeria. 
It has also been recorded from Naini Tal, India. 
I feel almost certain that Macquart’s ('nh-.n lmi)/eiu-e()liU}i>!, from Madeira, is the same 
species; if so, Rondani’s name must sink as a synonym. 
Genus, Gulex, Liiine 
Linn. “ Syst. Nat.” (1735) ; “ Mono. Culicid.,” I., p. 320 (1901), Theobald 
Gtdex saliis, n. sp. 
riates XXXIY., figs. 2, 3, XXXV., fig. 7, XXXVII., fig. 3, XXXVIII., fig. 2, 
XXXIX., fig. 2, and XL., fig. 1 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with rather scanty pale dull creamy scales, somewhat 
brighter in places ; pleur® clear white. Head with similar scales to the thorax ; proboscis 
black with a prominent whitish median band. .4bdomen deep hlackish-hrown with broad 
Inasal white hands with dark scales here and there, giving a mottled appearance. Legs with 
narrow apical and basal pale handing. 
$— Head: deep brown with narrow-curved pale creamy scales ; fiat creamy lateral ones 
and six short pale bristles projecting forward ; antennae black, basal lobes deeiJ hlackish- 
hrown ; clypeus black ; proboscis black with a broad pale creamy-white to white median 
band ; eyes silvery. 
Thorax : deep brown with rather scanty pale dull creamy scales, somewhat darker in two 
patches in front, and paler in front of the roots of the wings ; chacta^ apparently scanty, 
deej) brown ; scutellum Ijrown with narrow pale scales and six lirown j)osterior border 
l)ristles to the mid lobe; metanotum brown with grey reflections: pleura' jiallid greyish- 
white, somewhat pellucid, with some pale creamy scales. 
Ahdaineii: deej) Idackish-brown with broad l)asal wliite-scaled bands which just extend 
on to the apices of the preceding segments and which have a few dark scales scattered over 
them ; the first segment pale brown with a few dark scales and fine silk-like pale hairs ; 
posterior border-bristles pale ; last segment mostly pale-scaled ; venter with still broader 
pale Ijasal bands and even white scales dotted over the narrow dark apices. 
Leijs : brown, pale at their base, cox® almost silvery-white ; a pale knee spot and a few 
paler scales on the femora; apex of tibiae pale and base of metatarsi in the hind legs, a trace 
in the mid. none in the fore ; narrow pale bands to some of the tarsal joints, involving both 
sides of the joints, most prominent on the hind legs ; ungues equal and simple. 
HV/n/.'.-.- with dense scales on the branches of the second and fourth veins and third and 
apices of the other, rather broader than in G/drx (sen. st.), fork-cells moderately long; the 
first sub-marginal longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell; its base very 
slightly nearer the base of the wing than that of the second postei-ior cell, its stem a little 
less than half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior considerably less than half 
the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein more than three times its own length distant 
from the mid. 
Leiu/th : 4'5-5 mm. 
^ — Pidpi: longer than the jiroboscis by nearly the whole of the apical segment; acu¬ 
minate, last two segments of nearly e<pial length, the apical slightly the longer; hair-tufts 
scanty and short, dark; a laisal pale hand to both the last segments; the antepenultimate 
