CULEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. PALE BASAL BANDS 435 



/'. With incomplete, or indistinct, basal pale abdominal banding. 



105. C. hirsuteros, Theob. White abdominal bands on the anterior 



segments, lateral spots on the last two. Thorax brown, with 

 creamy scales. Tarsi brown. Venter pale brown. 



106. C. uncus, Theob. Abdomen with white basal patches, which 



sometimes extend, to form incomplete bands. Thorax chest- 

 nut-brown, unadorned. Tarsi black. Venter white-banded. 

 Halteres with hooked knobs. 



107. C. pruinosus, Theob. Abdomen with the bases of the segments 



slightly paler, with white lateral spots on the last three. 

 Thorax frosty-grey, with traces of two darker lines. Tarsi 

 brown. 



108. C. sericeiis, Theob. Abdomen brown, with indistinct ochreous 



bands. Thorax rich brown, with darker median line and 

 lateral patches. Pleurse grey, with two black spots. 



109. C. nigritullus, Zetterstedt. Abdomen dusky, with indistinct 



pale bands. Thorax dark, golden scaled, unadorned. Tarsi 

 brown. Venter dusky, with faint pale basal bands. 



79. CULEX FUNCTOR, Kirby. 



(Fauna Boreali-Americana, Ins. p. 309.) 



Tarsi uniformly deep brown. Thorax deep red-brown, with 

 five lines of brilliant white scales, viz., a fine median, two com- 

 plete broad lateral, and external to these again a narrower pair of 

 lateral lines incomplete in the middle. Abdomen dark chocolate, 

 with basal pale bands which spread out laterally. Legs brown ; 

 the coxae, with brown and white scales. Ungues of the <? , 

 unequal, the larger toothed, the smaller simple (?) ; hinder, equal 

 and simple ; in the ? , equal, uniserrated. 



Head dark brown, with narrow curved creamy scales, flat narrow pale 

 ones at the sides, and numerous creamy upright forked scales ; antennae 

 brown, with deep bright brown plumes ; proboscis brown ; palpi dark 

 brown ; those of ^ , with rather deep flaxen-brown hair tufts ; the two 

 last joints nearly equal, the antepenultimate longer, nearly as long as 

 the last two i^ut together. Pleurae black, with two large patches of 

 snowy scales. Legs testaceous. Halteres yellow, with tlie knob and 

 a lateral stripe black. Length. — 6 to 6*5 mm. 



ifaftiia if.— Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls, 65° N. lat. 



80. CULEX DIYERSUS, Theobald (Monog. 11, p. 73). 



Tarsi uniformly nearly black. Thorax with golden-brown 

 curved scales, with two broad, dark median lines, with bright 

 brown scales, and two smaller lateral lines posteriorly. Abdomen 



