GENUS MUCIDUS 349 



recently bitten in a test tube, placed on the slant, with some water in the 

 bottom. She deposited a number of eggs separately, but when trans- 

 ferred to water they did not hatch out. 



3. MUCIDUS MUCIDUS (Karsch). 



Culex muddies, Karsch (Ent. Nacbr. p. 25, 1887). 

 Plate xii, fig. 8, Wing of J . 



Wing not definitely spotted, but brindled with mainly brown, 

 some ochreous and a few parti-coloured scales with a pale patch 

 at the tip and a couple on V. and VI. each. The internal 

 fringe mainly dark, with seven pale interruptions much narrower 

 than the intervening dark portions. Legs elaborately ornamented 

 with alternating dark and light portions, the latter basal on the 

 tarsi, but these are nowhere very dark. Thorax yellow-brown 

 with woolly white tomentum. Abdomen brindled with brown 

 and white scales, the latter preponderating along the middle and 

 behind. Proboscis rather dark at the tip. 



5 . — Head yellowish-brown, with long straggling white scales forming 

 a median line and a few dotted over the whole surface, numerous black 

 and brown upright forked scales, a narrow white border round the eyes, 

 and numerous golden bristles projecting forwards ; antennae yeUowish- 

 brown, the basal joint with a tuft of white scales and a few brown scales 

 on the second joint ; palpi densely clothed with brown and white scales, 

 the white greatly predominating, especially towards the tip, a few parti- 

 coloured ones also present and a few large black bristles ; proboscis 

 covered with golden-yellow squamae, and with numerous brown ones 

 towards the base; wings with "2" nearly even with "3" and "4," 

 external to them. Length. — 8 to 8"5 mm. 



Habitat. — Whydah, W. Africa; and Delagoa Bay. 



4. MUCIDUS AFRICANUS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 274). 



Wings unspotted and less brindled than in the other members 

 of the genus, the majority of the scales being of a single sort 

 (parti-coloured) with a few dark ones on the costa, I. and V. 

 Internal fringe mainly black, with five irregularly disposed pale 

 patches, two near tip, two respectively before and behind ant. 

 br. of V. and a fifth internal to VI. Thorax fuscous grounded with a 

 pair of paler, sub-median ground stripes and white woolly tomen- 

 tum. Abdomen dark brown, with median and lateral patches of 

 long shaggy white scales on the first few segments, the apical 

 segments being mostly white-scaled ; legs with the femora mostly 

 dark-scaled, the tibiae black on the basal half or more, white 

 on the apical part ; metatarsi and tarsi ochreous, scales smaller, 



