PLAIN WINGED CULICES WITH BANDED PROBOSCIS 407 



snowy spot at the base of the last joint, and the next with a pale basal 

 band. Pleurae brown, with grey patches. Legs deep brown, with white 

 knee-spots. Tarsal claws of ? all equal and simple ; those of ^ , unequal, 

 with a single extra tooth on the larger claws of the fore and mid legs 

 only. Haltereswith dark stem and pale knob. Length. — About 4 mm. 

 Habitat. — Jamaica, up to 4,900 feet, after the autumnal rains. 

 " These insects follow one like a cloud." It seems possible that it may 

 be merely a variety of C. cingulatiis. 



30. CULEX INFULUS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 370). 



Tarsi with yellow bands on the articulations, the first joints 

 banded both at base and apex, but the upper one not extending 

 on to the tibia. Thorax very dark, unadorned, but with some 

 yellow scales in front. Abdominal segments dark brown, with 

 yellow apical bands, very well marked behind. Proboscis black 

 with a pale yellowish band in the middle, and a narrow one 

 before the apex. Wings with 4 twice its length inside 3, pale 

 at the base, with a distinct round, dark spot. 



? . — Head black, with a few pale yellow scales and numerous black 

 forked scales ; palpi black, with a few white hairs at the tip. Scutellum 

 and pleurie alike dark tinted. Legs dark below, with yellow femora. 

 Halteres with pale stem and brown knobs. Venter yellowish. Length. 

 — 5mm. It can be distinguished from the other "banded-proboscis" 

 species by the small vitta just before the apex of the proboscis, as well 

 as the broader central one, the basal and apical metatarsal and tarsal 

 banding, and the dark round spot at the root of the wings. 



Habitat. — Described from a single $ from Perak, Straits Settlements. 



31. CULEX TIGRIPES, de Grandpre efc de Charmoy. 

 " Les Moustique-i," Planter's Gazette Press, Port Louis, p. 6. 



= C. maculicrures, Theob. Monog. II, p. 34. 

 Plate, xvi, fig. 4a, Wing of <? ; 4b, of ? ; 4c, Head and appendages of 

 3 ; 4d, Thorax of var. Mombaensis. 



Wing densely clothed with black linear and truncate scales ; 

 tarsi unhanded, deep brown. Thorax unadorned, fuscous- 

 grounded, clothed with curved golden scales. Abdomen deep 

 chocolate, with ferruginous apical bands, broadened laterally by 

 triangular basal patches of the same tint. Proboscis with a white 

 band, sometimes incomplete above, beyond the middle. Femora 

 black, their anterior borders decorated with equidistant ferru- 

 ginous specks. 



A very large gnat of a generally deep red-brown. The head has the 

 nape clothed with yellow curved and black erect fork scales. In the S 



