GENUS CULEX " 'S'O'd 



stripe. The stems of the fork cells are very short. Length — 

 About 7 to 9 mm. 



Habitat. — Italy, Gibraltar (where it is known as the " dove mos- 

 quito"), Lower Himalayas, where I took a specimen at Nami Tal, 

 about 7,000 feet elevation. 



Note. — Should fresh material from the Canaries show that this is 

 synonymous with C. longiareolatus, Macquart, the present name must 

 sink, as Macquart's description is of course much the older. 



7. CULEX LONGIAREOLATUS, Macq. (Dipt. Exot. I, p. 34). 



(Dipt. Exot. i, p. 34, Macquart ; Hist. Nat. des lies Canaries, Berthelot.) 

 Plate XV, fig. 4, Wing of S- . 



Closely resembles G. siMtJdjxdpis and probably identical. 

 There is an additional tuft at the base of anterior fork, but there is 

 always a tendency to this at the forkings in all these species with 

 tufted wings. Although very long, the fork cells are proportion- 

 ally shorter than in C. Ficalbii. The two specimens in the 

 museum are very old and the collection of fresh material from 

 the Canaries is hence a desideratum. Length about 9 mm. 



Habitat. — The Canary Islands. 



8. CULEX $ GLAPHYROPTERUS, Schiner (" F. E." p. 247). 



Plate XV, fig. 2, Tarsal claws of ? ; 3, of (J . 



Wings with black spots formed of accumulations of scales, 

 arranged as in C. anmdatits ; tarsi dark brown, without bands; 

 thorax indistinctly ornamented ; abdominal segments nearly 

 black, with white basal bands. 



Antennae brown with the rotund basal joint yellow, and the plume 

 brown ; nape with deep grey or brassy tomentum ; thorax generally 

 brownish-yellow on the dorsum, with brassy or golden tomentum, 

 usually four dark longitudinal lines can be made out ; pleuriE ferrugi- 

 nous. Wings densely brown-scaled, accumulations of these determine 

 the position of the spots in exactly the same situations as in C. annu- 

 latus ; hips and the roots of the coxae yellowish ; knees pure yellow ; 

 tarsi black or nearly so. Abdominal segments nearly black, with a 

 whitish anterior band, the last segment with most white. Length. — 

 9 mm. 



Habitat. — Described by Schiner alone from Austria. 



A very elaborate supplementary description of this species is given 

 in Ficalbi's " Venti Specie di Zanzare," 1899. In this the ^ palpi are 

 said to be moderately clubbed at the end, brownish-black, rather lighter 

 at the base, but without adornment ; tliose of the ? are brownish-black, 



