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scales ; proboscis ferruginous, darker at tip. Scutelluni and pleurae 

 yellowish. Wings with fork cells level, and 4 close up to 3. Legs 

 ferruginous, darker on the tibise ; the fore and mid tarsal claws sj'm- 

 uietrical, each with an extra tooth. A very yellow species. Length. — 

 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Described from four specimens in the Hope collection, the 

 origin of which is unknown. 



Group IV. — Culices with Uniformly Coloured Wings and the 

 Tarsal Joints Apically Pale Banded. 



Only one species is recorded with the feet ornamented in this 

 way, and no specimens answering to the description quoted below 

 have come to hand. Possibly it really belongs to the next 

 sroup, or it may be, as suggested by Skuse, synonymous with 

 G. albo-annulatus , Macqt. 



54. CULEX CAMPTORHYNCHUS, Thomson 



(Eugen. Resa. Dii^t. p. 443). 



Thorax fuscous brown ; pleurie lighter ; mesothorax marbled with 

 short fulvous-golden scale-like hairs, and sparsely clothed with long erect 

 fuscous hairs on the sides and near the wings. Abdomen fuscous, with 

 the sides pale. Legs long, light coloured ; tarsi with the joints apically 

 whitish, the first almost as long as the tibia. Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Sidney, Australia. 



Group Y. — Culices with the Wings Unspotted, and the Proboscis 

 Unhanded, but with the Tarsi Banded " on the Articulations " 

 (i.e., two Joints Participating). 



i. The abdominal segments ornamented with pale lateral spots, in 

 addition to basal bands. 



55. C. gelidus, Theob. Scales clotliing the dusky ground of the 



thorax frosty on the anterior two-thirds, very dark behind. 

 Proboscis with a broad black terminal band. 



iii. The abdominal segments with pale basal bands. 



56. C. viorsitauH, Theob. Thorax chestnut-brown, with five creamy- 



white lines, 



vi. The abdominal segments unhanded, but with pale lateral spots. 



57. C Canadensis, Theob. Last two tarsal joints dusky white. 



C. cingulatus, Fab. The $ of this species, which has the pro- 

 boscis banded in the ^ only, would be traced to this position. 



