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a broad yellow patch opposite the anal cell. Tarsi black, with 

 four narrow yellowish bands on the articulations of each leg, 

 commencing with the tibio-tarsal. Thorax dark grounded with 

 greyish-yellow scales, but no obvious ornamentation. Abdomen 

 black with pale yellow basal bands, which are distinctly triangular 

 on the anterior segments. Proboscis spatulate, black, with a 

 narrow but conspicuous yellow band beyond the middle. 



Head black with ferruginous tomentum. Palpi of $ black minute ; 

 of (J , one-third longer than the proboscis, subulate, black, with last three 

 joints basally 3'ellow-banded and strongly tufted. The femora are yelloAS' 

 beneath and there are minute knee-spots, but legs elsewhere nearly 

 black. Venter yellow with narrow black apical bands to the segments. 

 Length. — 5 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — First described from Italy. Appears common in the Hills 

 in India, especially in the Nilgiris, and also appears in the plains in the 

 cooler seasons of the year. 



2. CULEX BIGOTII, Bellardi. 



(Mem. R. Acad. Torino, se. 2, T. xxii, p. 200.) 



Plate XV, fig. 6, Wing of (? ; 7, Wmg of ? ; 8, Cephalic appendages of 

 $ ; 9, Hind tarsus ; 10, Antennae, abdominal segments of <? ; 11, of $ . 



Wings with the costa yellow at the base and apex (in the J ), 

 with a minute black dot |1 axillary incision and two large black 

 spots, one in the middle, the other commencing || base of anterior 

 fork : II. and V. are mainly black, but the rest of the veins are 

 mainly yellow : or (in the 3 ) black at the base up to a short 

 white interruption preceding the middle black spot, but the rest 

 of the wing almost entirely pale-scaled; internal fringe pale at 

 base and apex, black elsewhere but for yellow interruptions at 

 each longitudinal junction, and with an extra one inside that of 

 VI. in the ? ; these light interruptions are rather narrow in the 

 $ , very wide in the <? . Tarsi black with broad yellow bands 

 on the articulations ; last joint of hind pair all yellow, those of 

 other legs less markedly so. Thoi'ax dark-grounded, with a large, 

 ill-defined, cordate black spot. Abdominal segments black, with 

 yellowish apical spots shaped like the " club " of playing cards ; 

 the hinder segments with additional lateral spots in the $ . 

 Proboscis nearly black with a broad median yellow band, ill- 

 defined behind where it shades off into the dark base. 



Head brown with golden and black scales Palpi brindled with gold 

 and black scales ; those of $ over one-fourth the lengtli of proboscis, with 

 a sub-terminal yellow dorsal spot ; those of 3 much longer than pro- 



