CULEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. PALE BASAL BANDS 447 



joint, very tapering, brown, with a pale band towards the base. Pleurae 

 testaceous, with a few white scales. Legs black, with white spots at the 

 apices of the femora and tibiae. Halteres with pale stems and a broad, 

 cup-shaped knob with a black rim. Length. — 6 mm. 

 Habitat. — New Zealand. 



96. CULEX PUSILLUS, Macquart (" D. E." sup. 4, p. 9). 



Tarsi, pale yellow. Thorax brown, yellowish and paler 

 behind, ornamented with whitish lines. Abdominal segments 

 dark brown, with white basal bands. 



Head and appendages black or nearly so. Legs pale yellow. Much 

 resembles C. fatiqans, AVied., but has 4 very close up to 3. Length. — 

 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Egypt. 



97. CULEX FLAYIPES, Macquart (1838). 



= C. molestus, Kollar ; = C. serotinus, Philippi. 



(Dipt. Exot. i, 1, 35, 5 (1838), Macquart ; Hist. fio. y poUt. de Chile, Zool. 

 vii, 332, 1 (1852), Blanch. ; Verhandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. xv, 595, 1 

 (1865), Philippi ; An. Soc. Cient. Arg. iv. 112 (1882), Arribalzaga ; Catal. 

 4, 3 (1883), et Bol. Acad. Arg. iv, 112 (1882), Arribalzaga ; Aufzahl. d. 

 Chile, Dipt, i, 1 (1865) Philippi (= serotinus); Bras. vorz. last. Ins. 187, 

 f. 13 (1832), Kollar (= molestus); Trans. Linn. Soc. Lend, xvii, 331,1 

 (1837), Walker; Dipt. Arg. 528 (1891), Arribalzaga.) 



Tarsi uniformly fuscous. Thorax rufous, with minute curved 

 golden scales, and with two parallel median fuscous hnes. Abdo- 

 men fuscous with basal yellow bands ; venter ochreous, with pale 

 scales. Tarsal claws equal and simple in both sexes. 



2 • — Head brown, with numerous dull golden curved scales and 

 foi'ked upright fuscous ones, a pale creamy border round the eyes, and 

 a pale flat-scaled patch on eacli side ; proboscis deep brown at the tip, 

 ochreous brown at the base ; palpi ochreous, covered with deep brown 

 scales ; antennte pale brown ; basal joint bright testaceous ; clypeus 

 brown. Scutellum, with pale scales and seven bristles to the median lobe. 

 Pleurae marked with dusky and frosty scales. Legs yellow at the base ; 

 tibife and tarsi clothed with fuscous scales. Halteres pale, with fuscous 

 knobs. Venter pale yellow. Length. — About 5 mm. 



Habitat. — South America; Lower Amazon, ChiU, Brazil, Argentine, 

 Uruguay, 



Observation. — The above description is abbreviated from Mr. Theo- 

 bald's account of the species he takes to be Macquart's, and which he 

 finds is so variable as to account for its want of accordance with the type 

 in the Jardin des Plantes. 



