GENUS CULEX 



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B. Spots on the wing field. 



iii. Abdomen with basal pale 

 bands ; tarsi banded. 

 a. Thorax not ornamented. 



Wmg spots five ; mid ungues 

 of ^ with larger tooth 

 twice- and smaller once- 

 toothed 4. ainndatus, Schrank. 



Wing spots indistinct, like 

 above species, but mid 

 ungues of ,S both twice- 

 toothed 5. Ficalhii, Noe. 



)3. Thorax ornamented. 



Thorax with lines .of white 

 scales ; wing spots three ; 



legs spotted 6. spathijjaljns, Rondani. 



Wings with four spots ; fork- 

 cells very long 7. longiareolatus, Macquart. 



iii. Abdomen with basal pale 

 bands ; tarsi unhanded. 

 Wing spots four or five 8. (jla_plujropterus, Schiner. 



iv. Abdomen with apical pale 

 bands. 



Wings with a single brown 



patch near apex 9. fulvus, Wiedemann. 



Wings with five spots ; palpi 



of (J fihform, not spatulate 



as in (umulatus 10. penetrans, R. Desvoidy. 



vii. Abdomen with apical triangular 

 pale median spots. 

 Wings with one spot at base 



of third long vem 11. Jamaiceimis, n. s]}. 



1. CULEX MIMETICUS, Noe. 



(Boll. d. See. Ent. Italiana, xxxi, p. 240, Firenze (1899).) 



Plate XV, fig. 16, Wing of 2 ; 17, Palpi and proboscis of <? ; 18, Tarsal 



claws, (^ . 



Wings with the inner two-fifths of the costa black, followed 

 by two pale yellow interruptions, each about equal to the inter- 

 vening black portion, and a large pale apical spot ; these spots 

 involve I. and II. and III. are wholly yellow scaled, but the 

 rest are mainly dark scaled ; the internal fringe is dark except 



