CUIjEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. PALE BASAL BANDS 449 



100. CULEX PULCHRIYENTER, Sp. n. 



(Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xiii, p'. 608.) 



Plate xvii, fig. 1, Tarsal claws ? and $• ; la, Venation of J wing ; 

 lb, Head and appendages <? ; Ic, Diagram and abdominal adorn- 

 ment of ? ; Id, Ditto of ^ ; le, Larvae, x 7. 



Tarsi uabanded, black. Thorax golden-scaled, with a fine 

 median, and broader lateral bare black lines. Abdominal seg- 

 ments black, with snowy basal bands, and the venter elaborately 

 adorned with golden, snowy-white, and black markings. 



Head black, with two bands of golden scales, separated by a delicate 

 bare black line, with a fine line of golden scales round the eyes ; lateral 

 flat-scaled patches white, rather small ; antennae but two-thirds the 

 length of the proboscis in the ^ ; black throughout in the ? , the inter- 

 nodes are covered with whitish down, and there is a sUky patch on the 

 basal joint ; palpi of ? , very short, black, with a few golden hairs at the 

 apex and at the base of the third joint ; those of J^, only four-fifths the 

 length of the proboscis, the last joint tapered, but flattened and very 

 short, black with a few yellow hairs at the apex and a ring on the base 

 of the third johit. Pleurae and coxae, dark with a few silvery patches. 

 Legs sooty-black, save for the golden undersides of the femora, a distinct 

 knee-spot, and a few stray bristles of the same colour on the other joints. 

 The five middle segments of the venter are adorned with lunate golden 

 apical patches, bounded by a sooty line, which separates them from a pah* 

 of lateral snowy patches. Length. — 5 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. — Naini Tal, Himalayas, 7,000 feet. Essentially a sylvan 

 species. Breeds m clean water pools in the course of hill torrents. The 

 larvae are large, nearly black, with the sides of the head yellow, and have 

 extremely short respiratory syphons. 



101. CULEX REESII, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 145). 



Tarsi uniformly dark brown. Thorax dark brown, with two 

 pale parallel stripes when denuded, covered with pale golden 

 scales, and with a broad median dark line of deep brown scales. 

 Abdomen deep brown, with pale creamy-white basal bands, often 

 dull. Venation much as in G. jnpiens, but stem of the first sub- 

 marginal cell longer. Tarsal claws of $ , equal and simple. 



5 . — Head dark brown, with grey curved scales and black upi-ight 

 forked ones, pale grey round the eyes ; proboscis dark brown, pale at the 

 tip ; palpi of J , short, densely black scaled, those of <? , nearly black, 

 with two pale bands near tlie base ; antennae dark brown, with pale 

 pubescence and dark hairs, slightly testaceous at the base ; clypeus deep 

 brown. Scutellum, with yellowish grey scales and eight bristles on the 

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