INADEQUATELY DESCRIBED CULICES, WITH BANDED FEET 427 



66. CULEX PARVUS, Macquart (1834). 

 [Nou. Suit, a Buff. Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Dipt. torn, i (1834).] 



Wings unspotted ; tarsi with white rings ; for the rest like Culex 

 pipiens. Lengtli. — 2 lines. 

 Habitat. — France. 

 Note.— Possibly the same as the preceding. 



67. CULEX NICAENSIS, Leach 



(Zool. Journ. ii. 292, 2, Leach). 



Head and thorax dark brown. Legs cinereous, with tarsi grey I'inged. 

 Abdomen dark brown, all the segments bordered behind with cinereous. 

 Length, — 10 mm. 



Habitat. — Nice ; common. 



Note. — Not noticed by Ficalbi, or any recent observer ; the tj^pe 

 apparently not existing. 



68. CULEX ANNULITARSIS, Macquart (" D. E." i, p. 8). 



= C. fasciatus, Fabricius (?). 



Fuscous ; tibse white ringed ; first hind tarsal joints whitish, with 

 fuscous rings. Length.— 2 lines ( J ). 



Legs brown ; femora with whitish bases, hind tibise with a large 

 white ring at the tip ; first hind tarsal joints whitish, with a small brown 

 ring. 



Habitat. — Mauritius. 



69. CULEX BIPUNCTATUS, Bob. Desvoidy. 



(Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, t. iii (1827), Rob. Desvoidy; Suit, a Buff, 

 i, 35, 11, Macquart.) 



Thorax, with dorsum dark red and the pleurae lighter, with two 

 silvery spots in front. Femora pale yellow ; knee j-ellowish, tarsi ringed 

 brown and yellow. Dorsum of abdomen j-ellow, with a median blackish 

 line. Length. — 4 lines. 



Habitat. — France. 



Note. — The type is not traceable, nor has the species been observed 

 since it was described. 



Group VII. — Culices with Unbanded Tausi. 



This is a large group of nearly seventy species, which are 

 extremely difficult to tabulate, on account of the close resem- 

 blance of many of the forms included. 



The most convenient basis of tabulation appears to be the 

 ornamentation of the abdomen, and in view of the large num- 



