FEET UNADORNED ; ABD. BASAL BANDS WITH SPOTS 429 



proboscis brown, darker at the tip ; palpi of $ , black, with a few grey 

 scales ; those of the $ , longer than the proboscis by all the last, and half 

 of the next joint, brown, with a white band on the basal third. Legs 

 yellowish on the femora, darker below, with clear yellow knee-spots. 

 Pleurae brown, with whitish patches. Halteres with a dusky lateral line 

 and darker knobs. Venter with broad white basal bands. Tarsal claws 

 of ? , equal and simple ; those of $ , unequal, with an extra tooth on the 

 fore and mid legs : the hind equal and simple. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — South Africa : Durban and Salisbury, Mashonaland. 

 February to April, and also from Singapore, in July. 



71. CULEX QUASIUNIYITATUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 32). 



Closely resembles the above, but differs in having two black 

 patches on the head ; by the tarsal claws of the fore and mid 

 legs of the female having each an extra tooth ; and by there being 

 a pair of indistinct median pale lines on the point of the mesono- 

 tum. Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Salisbury, Mashonaland. 



72. CULEX RESTUANS, Sp. n. (Walker, MS.). 

 (Monog. II, pp. 119 and 142). 



Tarsi uniformly bronzy-black. Thorax bright chestnut-brown, 

 with golden-brown curved scales ; two round pale spots on 

 the mesonotum, a patch of pale scales just in front of the 

 root of the wings, aad paler scales around the bare space in 

 front of the scutellum. Abdominal segments dusky brown, with 

 basal bands of yellow, and pure white lateral spots. Ungues of 

 the ? , equal and simple. 



? . — Head black, with numerous pale creamy, curved, and black, 

 upright forked scales, with Hat white scales at the sides of the head ; 

 palpi black, greyish at the tip ; antennae with the basal joint and base of 

 the second, testaceous, remainder blackish-brown, with pale pubescence ; 

 clypeus and proboscis brown. Scutellum pale with six bristles to the 

 middle lobe. Pleurae pale brick-red, with four white patches. Legs 

 bronzy-brown to black, except the coxae, the bases of, and ventral sides of 

 femora, which are very pale, and also a yellow knee-spot. Halteres with 

 pale yellow stem and dusky knob. Length. — 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Toronto and Ontario, Canada. 



73. CULEX AUSTRALIS, Erichson (1842). 



— Culex crucians, Walker (1856) (?). 



[Archiv. fiir Naturg. viii, p. 470 (1842), Erichson ; Ins. Saundersiani, i, 



p. 432 (1856) ( = C. crucians), Walker (?)]. 



Tarsi, uniformly black. Thorax, deep rich chestnut-brown, 

 with small golden curved scales, more or less arranged in lines. 



