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Tarsal claws of ? , equal and simple. Anterior fork cell usually at 

 least seven times as long as its cell. Palpi of 3 , exceeding the 

 proboscis by all the last, and a full third of the next joint. 

 Antennie, reaching barely beyond the base of the antepenultimate 

 palp joint. 



Head black-grounded, clothed with golden linear curved, and black 

 erect forked scales, with a narrow line of the former between the eyes 

 but without distinction of eye-borders ; the lateral flat-scaled areas 

 creamy-white ; proboscis golden-brown at the base, nearly black for its 

 apical third ; palpi of $ , deep brown ; those of 3 » light golden-brown, 

 with dense brashes of dark hairs ; antennae brown. Pleurse chestnut- 

 brown, with a few small creamy patches. Legs brown, with small white 

 knee-spots, and the femora pale at the base, and for all then- undersides. 

 Halteres pale yellow, slightly darker on the knobs. Venter pale yellow. 

 Length. — About 5 mm. ; very variable. 



Habitat. — Throughout Europe, and also found in Northern America. 



83. CULEX QUASIPIPIENS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 136). 



Tarsi uniformly brown. Thorax brown, with nari'ow curved 

 golden scales. Abdomen brown, with curved basal, very pale 

 yellow to white, bands ; last segment often pale scaled. Legs 

 unhanded, brown; knee-spot pale; ungues equal and simple. 

 Head with pale scales. 



Closely resembles C. pipiens, differing mainly in the form of the 

 curved scales of the head which are much smaller in this species ; and 

 in venation of the wing, the anterior fork cell bemg shorter ha proportion 

 to its stem, and its point of bifurcation well inside, instead of outside 

 the auxiliary junction {vide fig. 45). Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Sambalpur, C.P., India. 



84. CULEX FATIGANS, Wiedemann (1828). 



= Hctcroiujcha dolsa, Arribiilzaga (1896) ; = C. (rstxtans, Wiedemann (1828) ; 



= C. pungens, Wiedemann (1828); = C. 2^0,1 lipcs, Meigcn (1838); = C. 



Maclcayi, Skuse (1896) ; = C. Skzisii, Giles (1899) ; = C. anxifer, de 



Grandpr6 et de Gharmoy (1900). 

 (" A. Z. I." p. 10, Wiedemann ; " S. B." Th. oder Suppl. (1831) (= pallipes) 



Mcigen ; " L. A." p. 56 (= H, dolosa), ArribdJzaga ; " S. A. C." p. 1745 



(1896) (= C. Maclcayi), Skuso ; ibid. p. 1748 (= (?) var. ciliaris), Skuse; 



1st Edition, p. 299 (= SJmsii), GWes; "A. Z. I." p. 9 (= imnge^ia), 



Wiedemann; Bull. 25th N. Se. U.S. Dept. Agri. p. 22, &c. (I'JOO) 



( = inmgens), Howard ; " Les Moustiques," Port Louis, 1900, = C. atixifcr, 



de Graudpre et de Charmoy.) 



Tarsi uniformly dark brown. Thorax, when denuded, rather 

 pale red-brown with two distinct dark lines ; clothed with golden 



