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7. With the tarsi light banded " ou the ai-ticiilations " (two joints 

 participating) . 

 i. Abdominal segments with light basal bands (or median spots) 

 as well as lateral spots. 



21. C. annulioris, Theob. Median and lateral abdominal spots 



alike triangular : band on proboscis yellow, occupying all its 

 middle third. 



22. C. plumosiis, Theob. Median abdominal light patches lunate, 



lateral ones at mid-length of segments. Band on proboscis 

 narrow, ferruginous, and in the middle. Large fore claw of 

 (^ with two accessory teeth ; anterior margin of mesonotum 

 tufted. 



23. C. Iiirsutipalpis, Theob. Median abdominal light patches 



lunate, lateral ones basal. Bands on proboscis median and 

 broad. Large fore claw of $ with one accessory tooth. 



24. C. dissimllis, Theob. Median light abdominal patches lunate, 



traces of lateral spots on the hinder segments only. Band on 

 proboscis, narrow, yellow, well beyond the middle. Large 

 fore-claw of 3' with an extra tooth. 



25. C. Duttoni, Theob. Band on proboscis dull red on apical half. 



Thorax brown scaled with pale fore border and patclies 

 in the middle and over the roots of wings, 

 iii. Abdominal segments adorned only with pale basal bands. 



26. C. impellent, AValker. Tarsal bands very narrow, wings with 



4 but little inside 8. 



27. C. anmilus, Theob. Tarsal bands very narrow, wings with 



4 far internal to 8. 



28. C. cingulatus, Fabr. Tarsi banded on the articulations of hind 



legs only. Abdominal bands well-marked, semilunar. Pro- 

 boscis banded in the $ only. 



29. C. secufoi; Theob. Like C. ciiir/itlafits, but with the abdominal 



banding indistinct. 



5. The tarsi unhanded. 

 V. Abdominal segments banded on bases and apices of contiguous 

 segments. 



30. C. infuliis, Theoh. Proboscis black, with a pale yellowish band 



in the middle, and a narrow one just inside its tip. 

 3L C. tigrijJes, de Grandpre et de Charmoy. A band on the 

 proboscis beyond its middle, sometimes incomplete above. 

 Legs dark, marked, especially on the anterior borders of 

 femora, with equidistant yellow specks. 



12. CULEX T^NIORHYNCHUS, Wied. 



= C. damnosus, Says (?) = C. confinnis, ArribiU (?). 



Tarsi black, with all the last and broad bands at the bases 

 of the other four joints of the hind legs snowy-white ; the fore 



