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with a short conical fourtli joint. The indistinct thoracic adornment 

 consists of a median, two lateral and border lines of golden-yellow on a 

 maroon-brown ground. 



9. CULEX FULYUS, Wied. (A. Z. I, p. 546). 



Wings with a brownish-black patch at the apex ; tarsal joints 

 with yellow apical bands, lanugo smooth ; thorax not dorsally 

 ornamented ; palpi longer than the proboscis. 



Body black, with yellow hairs, and the hmder legs banded brown. 

 Loif/th two and a half lines (German). $ — Antennae brownish ; pro- 

 boscis and palpi (wliicli latter are somewhat longer than is usual) golden- 

 yellow, with brownish-black apices ; ground colour of the body glisten- 

 ing brownish-black, thickly beset with golden-yellow hah's, those on the 

 abdomen being somewhat lighter, and on the incisurse abdominis blackish. 

 Wings, golden -.yellow along the costa, and brownish-black at the apices ; 

 legs golden -yellow; in the front legs, the extreme apex of the femur, 

 tibite, and foot-joints brownish-black on top ; the middle legs are miss- 

 ing, but the hinder legs have the femur and tib* also brownisli-black at 

 the apex, while the foot-joints, on the contrary, are much brighter, and 

 brownish-black elsewhere ; the basal half of the second foot jomt also 

 remams yellow. 



Habita t. — Brazil. 



10. CULEX PENETRANS, Desvoidy (F. E. p. 246). 



Wings with five more or less distinct spots ; tarsi with yellow 

 bands ; lanugo smooth ; thorax fulvous with two brown dorsal 

 lines ; palpi of the male filiform. 



In the J , the palpi are more filiform ,than in C. annulatus ; the 

 antennae of the $ are yellowish-brown ; in the J* , shorter and more 

 plumose than in C. annulatus; thorax fulvous, with two brown dorsal 

 lines ; abdomen yellow, with brownish incisur* ; wings with yellowisli 

 scales, and with five more or less distinct spots ; tarsi yellow with brown 

 rings ; filiform, and pale yellowish in the <? , with the third joint of the 

 middle pair ciligerous. Length — o lines. 



Habitat. — France. 



11. CULEX JAMAICENCIS, Theob. (Monog. I, p. 345). 

 riate XV, fig. 5. 



$ . — Wing with a single obvious spot, formed by a tuft of long 

 scales at the origin of III., with the costa and long veins brindled 

 with alternate patches of black and white scales. Tarsi sooty ; 

 all joints of hind, upper three of mid, and upper two of fore legs 



