CULICES WITH BASALLY BANDED FEET 413 



knee-spots and some scattered white scales above, especially on the 

 undersides. Venter black, with scattered white scales. Most nearly 

 resembles C.vigilax, Skuse. and differs from C. albo-annulahis, in having 

 all the hind tarsals white banded, but there are no flat fusiform scales on 

 the thorax. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Queensland, Australia. Sometimes breeds in salt water. 



39. CULEX YIGILAX, Skuse (" S. A. C." p. 1731). 



Upper three of the fore and mid, and all the hind tarsal joints 

 violet-black vpith white basal bands ; thorax black, mottled with 

 golden scales and setae, but unadorned with any distinct marks. 

 Abdominal segments narrowly banded in front with yellow, and 

 with lateral patches of pure white. There is a tendency to banding 

 of the proboscis. 



Antennae dark brown, three-quarters the length of the proboscis, 

 joints of the scaphus, ochreous brown ; head covered with dark brown, 

 and indistuactly mottled with yellow scales ; proboscis about seven times 

 the length of the palpi in the 5 , almost black, ochreous beneath, from 

 just beyond the base to a little beyond the middle ; palpi dark brown, 

 the last joint with white scales at the apex. Thorax almost black, 

 densely covered with black and bronzy fusiform scales, closeh' applied 

 and differing entirely from the usual Culex form ; mottled with small 

 patches of narrow curved golden scales and setae ; metanotum nearly 

 black, somewhat testaceous laterally ; halteres entirely ochreous. Legs 

 black, with intermixed white scales, which predominate on the under- 

 sides of the femora, and with distinct golden knee-spots. All three pairs 

 of tarsal claws with an extra tooth on each claw, the fore and mid being 

 very unequal (vide Plate xvi, fig. 10, fore and hind claws of 3)- 

 Length. — 5 to 5'5 mm. 



Habitat. — Eastern Australia. 



40. CULEX MACLIYENTRIS, Macquart ("D. E."Cap. i, p. 7). 



Wings unspotted ; tarsi inconspicuously basally white banded ; 

 thorax black with rufus tomentum, unadorned. Abdomen black, 

 the segments with both the fore and hind borders and a median 

 line yellowish. 



"Thorax black with rufous tomentum. Abdomen black with the 

 incisions and a dorsal line yellowish ; tarsi faintly white-ringed. Length 

 2 lines (?). Proboscis brown; palpi black, with the apex white; 

 antennae brown. Frons di'ab. Abdomen black, with both anterior and 

 posterior borders of the segments and a dorsal line of a grej-ish-j'eUow. 

 Legs 3'ellowish ; tarsi black, with a little white at the base of each joint. 

 AVings unspotted " (Macquart). 



