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black verticils, those of 2 banded. Palpi of 3 > smooth, black, subulate, 

 its four outer joints subequal, and exceeding the proboscis by the entire 

 length of the end joints; those of $ minute, intensely black. Humeral 

 callosities whitish ; scutelluni dark in the middle, creamy laterally ; 

 pleurne marbled dark grey and whitish. Halteres with whitish stems and 

 fuscous knobs. Legs sooty, except the undersides of the femora and 

 loiees, which are creamy white. Ventral segments black behind, with 

 broad basal white bauds pointed at the sides, and easily visible when 

 the insect is viewed from one side. Fore and mid tarsal claws of $ , equal 

 and toothed, of hind simple, those of male, larger and somewhat unequal, 

 but similarly armed (in the ohturhaits type they are more unequal). 

 Length. — About 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Appears common all along the southern Asiatic littoral 

 from India to China, but I have not met with it inland. 



Captain James, I. M.S., notes that the larva of this mosquito is large, 

 and has a characteristic whitish woolly appearance. It rests perpen- 

 dicularly to the surface, and further has very large and characteristic 

 swituming fans. It breeds chiefly in pots and tubs of dirty water, in the 

 open and under trees. It is ver^^ rare to find this mosquito in houses, 

 though it is not uncommon in woods. 



2. ARMIGERES PANALECTOROS, Sp. n. 



Plate xiv, fig. 13, Venation of wing ; 14, Ceplialic appendages of 3 ; 

 15, Tarsal claws of $ ; 16, Decoration of thorax. 



Closely resembles the above, but is much smaller, and has the 

 thorax rather elaborately decorated with creamy lines, a median 

 broad one, commencing about the middle of the mesothorax, and 

 dividing behind, to turn forward as a pair of lateral lines, which 

 again curve backwards. The scutellum is clothed almost entirely 

 with creamy scales and the tarsal claws of the J are extremely 

 unsymmetrical, even on the hind legs. Length. — From 3-5 to 

 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Calcutta, during the rains. 



Genus XIV. CULEX, Liimreus. 



(Linn. Syst. Nat. (1735), Linureus ; Fn. Suoc. 1890, pi. x, figs. 1—4(1761), 

 Linnffius; Zweifiiig. Ins. i, 1 (1818), ]\Ieigon ; Gen. Crust, et Ins. iv, 

 256 (1809), et Hist. Nat. d. Crust, et d. Ins. xii, 284 (1802), Latreille ; 

 Dipt. Exot. 6 (1821), Wiedemann ; Mim. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, iii, 

 (1827), Rob. Desvoidy; Hist. Nat. d. lus. i, 33, 2 (1834), Macquart ; 

 Dipt. Exot. p. 29 (1838), Macq. ; Ins. Brit. Dipt, iii, p. 243 (1851), 

 Walker; Brit. Ent. xii, 537 (1835), Curtis; Dipt. Scaud. (1850), 

 Zettcrstedt; Fn. Austr. ii, (1864), Schiuer; Dipt. Neer. 323 (1877), Van 

 der Wulp ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxvi, 315, et Revis. Sist. d. fam. d. 



