CULEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. PALE BASAL BANDS 445 



scattered ochreous scales. Halteres ochreons. Venter densely pale 

 ochre-scaled in the $ ; with black median patches in the $ . Le^igth. — ■ 

 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Australia; N.S.W. and Queensland. 



92. CULEX YIRIDIYENTER, sp. n. 



(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii, p. 609.) 



Plate xvii, fig. 12, Tarsal claws of <? ; 12a, Venation of wing of ? ; 12b, 

 Diagram of abdominal banding contrasted with that of C. fatigans ; 

 12c, Larva, x 7 diams. 



Tarsi uniformly dusky. Thorax chocolate-brown with bronzy 

 tomentum. Abdominal segments with yellowish basal bands 

 having a blunt, deltoid, backward median prolongation. Venter 

 almost naked, save for a few colourless scales, green in fresh 

 specimens. Knees with minute lighter dots. Tarsal claws of 

 $ , equal and simple. 



Head with deep chocolate ground, clothed with ferruginous linear 

 curved, and black erect forked scales, with creamy lateral patches, narrow- 

 ing above to form a whitish posterior border to the eyes ; proboscis, 

 antennae and palpi nearly black ; the last exceeding the first in length h\ 

 half the length of the subulate terminal joint. Scutellum nearly bare, 

 the middle, with six strong bristles and strong tufts on the lateral lobes. 

 Pleurae and sternum black, the former marked with greyish scales. Legs 

 dark greyish brown, with narrow yellowish tips to the femora and tibiae ; 

 the coxae and bases of femora yellowish ; first hind tarsal joint shorter 

 than its tibia. Halteres pale yellow. Venter clothed with colourless 

 scales, through which the green plant juice on which both sexes feed is 

 visible, so as to give a distinctive pale green hue to fresh specimens. 

 Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Naini Tal, Himalayas, 7,000 ft. Breeds in pure rain-water 

 pools in the course of hill streams which become raging torrents even 

 after moderate rain. The larva is notable for its very long antennae and 

 also for its long respiratory syphon. The adult females do not bite. 



93. CULEX CONSOBRINUS, R. Desvoidy ("Essai," p. 408). 



= C. iiwrnatus, Williston ; = C. impatiens. Walker ; = C. jnnguis, Walker (?). 

 [List, Brit. Mus. Dipt. p. 5, Walker ( = impatiens) ; North American Fauna, 



Washington Gov. Press (1893), Williston (= inornatus) ; Science Gossip, 



pp. 79-81 (1867), Walker (?) (= pincjuis).^ 



Tarsi brownish-yellow. Thorax bright chestnut-brown, 

 darkened towards the sides, and on a narrow dusky central line ; 

 with scattered golden curved scales. Abdomen brown, with 



