CULICES WITH BASALLY BANDED FEET 417 



Head dark grounded, with creamy curved linear, and yellow, and also 

 black, erect forked scales ; palpi, 5 , nearly black, with scattered white 

 scales ; those of $ , longer than the proboscis, with yellowish brushes 

 and rings on the middle joints. Pleurae brown, with creamy patches. 

 Legs yellowish at the base, the femora dark tipped but with yellow 

 knee-spots, and the tibiae clothed with irregularly mixed black and white 

 scales. Halteres entirely pale yellow. Length. — About 6 nun. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Northern America. 



1 have also received a specimen from Dr. Price, of Conoor, Nehilgerri 

 Hills, Southern India (about 6,000 feet), who notes it as a sylvan species. 



47. CULEX ANNULIPES, Meigen. 



Syst. Beschr. vi, 241, 15, Meigen ; Dipt. Scand. ix, 3462, 10, Zett. ; Fn. Austr. 

 ii, 627, Schiner ; Dipt. Near, viii, 346, Van der Wulp ; Ins. Brit. Dipt, 

 iii, Walker.) 



Tarsi light yellow, with white basal bands, but the last joint 

 quite black. Thorax dark ferruginous, with two faint darker con- 

 verging lines. Abdomen yellowish-grey with ill-marked bands, 

 but uniformly light yellow according to Ficalbi. Wing veins 

 with some white scales intermixed with the darker ones. 



Proboscis rather yellowish, darker at base and apex ; palpi of ^ , 

 yellowish, with the apices of each joint darker, with brown specks and 

 tomentum ; in the ? , very brown ; nape rather brownish, ferruginous ; 

 pleurae speckled whitish. Wings witli the veins ferruginous ; the fork 

 cells, with their branches longer than their stems, that of the hinder the 

 shorter. Legs generally yellowish, femora yellow, speckled black above ; 

 tibiae light yellow. Length. — 10 to 12 mm. 



Habitat. — Northern Europe, including England ; a sylvan species. 



48. CULEX SYLYESTRIS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 406). 



Tarsi black above and pale below, w^ith narrow white basal 

 bands to all the joints of the hind and on the upper three of the 

 fore and mid legs. Thorax deep brown, with thin golden scales, 

 pale in front of the scutellura. Abdomen, with dusky brown to 

 black scales, with basal bands of pure white, bent in in the 

 middle, last two segments with apical white bands as well. The 

 lateral fiat- scaled area of the head consists of an antero-internal 

 black spot with a white patch behind and outside it. 



Vertex and nape, clothed with golden curved linear, and ochreous, and 



also black erect forked scales ; palpi of J , black with white apex ; those 



of <? , with the third and fourth joints dilated, with white basal bands, 



that on the latter very broad. Pleune brown, with white patches. Legs 



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