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and mid legs with the upper three tarsal joints basally white 

 l)anded. Thorax fuscous grounded, densely clothed with narrow, 

 curved, yellowish-brown scales and numerous long black bristles, 

 exceptionally large tufts of which are found at the roots of the 

 wings and on the lobes of the scutellum. Abdomen black, with 

 very narrow cream-coloured basal bands to the segments, and 

 brilliant lateral tufts of snowy scales placed rather nearer their 

 bases than to their apices. Proboscis with a sharply- defined 

 yellow band much nearer the base than the apex. 



Head black f,'rounded, the nape tinted with yellow, narrow, curved, 

 and black erect forked scales ; antenme black ; i^alpi, ? , nearly black, 

 with yellow tips ; of <? , black at the base, goklen brown at the tip, with 

 basal snowy bands to the last three joints and a very large tuft of golden 

 hairs sprhiging from the lower surface of the apex of the third joint. 

 Wings with 2 nearly || , but just internal to 3, 4 widely internal ; aux. 

 junct. well outside 2. Femora pale below, black elsewhere, as also are 

 tibicB but for a small knee-spot. Ventral segments dark, with square, 

 yellowish basal marks. Length. — About 6 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Lucia, British Guiana, Soutli America. 



13. CULEX SOLICITANS, Walker. 



(Insect. Saund. p. 427 (1856), Walker; Cir. No. 40, 2nd se. U.S.A. Dept. 

 Agri. (1899), Howard.) 



Wings mottled with brown and pale scales. Tarsi dark above 

 but paler on the end joints, with pale basal bands, except on the 

 first joint of fore legs and on the end joints, which are almost too 

 pale to show them, the first mid tarsal with an additional pale 

 band in the middle. Thorax nearly black-grounded, densely 

 clothed with golden-brown scales but unadorned. Abdomen 

 with creamy-white to yellow scales, forming a central broad line 

 and with basal white liands, with a dark brown to nearly black 

 quadrangular patch on each side of the central mass of pale 

 scales ; there are also white scales laterally on some of the 

 segments. Proboscis with a broad, nearly white band in the 

 middle. Bases of fork cells nearly even, and 4 about its own 

 length inside 3. 



5 . — Head brown-grounded, densely clothed with golden scales, ueiu-ly 

 black at the sides ; palpi dark with lighter tips. Scutellum with bright 

 golden mai-girial bristles ; pleura' densely white-scaled. Legs rather 

 light coloured, brindled with dark and light scales ; with white knee- 

 spots. Hidteres testaceous with rather darker knobs. The species is 

 very distinct and not in any way connected with Wiedemann's C. 

 tccniorhynchtis. Walker's type is in the British Museum, and is cer- 



