PLAIN WINGED CULICES WITH BANDED PEOBOSCIS 403 



Abdomen yellowish-brown, with lunate yellow baral median 

 patches, the hinder margins of which are recurved in the second 

 to fourth segments, in addition to which there are round spots 

 on the middle of the sides of the segments. Proboscis brown, 

 with a narrow ferruginous band in the middle. Wings with 4 

 just inside 3. Tarsal claws of ? , serrated ; the large fore-claw 

 of (^ , with two accessory teeth. 



$ . — Head nearly black-grounded, with creamy curved and black 

 forked scales on the nape, and dull yellow lateral patches ; there is a 

 scanty frontal tuft of yellow hairs ; palpi black, with two yellow bands, 

 the fourth joints rather dilated, all black (the last missing). Pleurae dark 

 brown, with some yellow scales and dark bristles. Legs dark brown, 

 yellowish on the bases and undersides of the femora, and on the apices 

 of the joints. Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knobs. Length. — 

 6"5 mm. 



Described from a single ^ . Mr. Theobald's surmise that this is the 

 (^ of his C. Annidioris is very probably correct, as there is often a good 

 deal of sexual differentiation in tlie abdominal marking of gnats. 



Habitat. — Salisbury, Mashonaland ; March. 



23. CULEX HIRSUTIPALPIS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 378). 

 Plate xvi, fig. 9, fore -tarsal claws of ^ . 



Tarsi nearly black ; all the first joints with pale basal bands, 

 their apices participating in the band on the first tarsal articulation ; 

 the fore and mid legs having the two first and the hind all its 

 articulations pale banded. Thorax dark brown, with hair-like 

 golden scales, unadorned. Abdomen deep brown, the first seg- 

 ments all white, except a pair of dark spots in the middle, the 

 others with narrow, semi-lunar, basal pale spots, which spread 

 out to form narrow bands, and also lateral pale basal spots. 

 Proboscis deep brown, with a broad yellow band in the middle. 

 Wings with fork of IV, distinctly outside that of II, and 4 

 rather near 3. Tarsal claws of ? , simple ; large fore -claw of 

 ^ , with a single accessory tooth. 



Head brown, with creamy scales on the nape and flat white ones 

 laterally, with numerous black forked scales behind ; palpi of J • black with 

 a few grey scales near the tip ; those of ^ , longer than the proboscis by 

 the last two joints, pointed at the apex, but rather dilated near it, and 

 with this part densely armed with long black hairs, with the apex and 

 three bands of yeUowish-brown. ScuteUum with pale scales ; pleurae dull 

 brown with greyish reflections. Legs brown, with the femora yellowish 



