CULEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. PALE BASAL BANDS 451 



Scutellum pale brown, with eight bristles on the median lobe. Pleurte 

 golden-brown, with dull white patches. Legs brown, unhanded, knee- 

 spots creamy-white, as also are the apices of the tibiae. Halteres with yellow 

 stem and dusky knob. Venter with many white scales. Differs from 

 C. pipiens in the pale abdominal bands being narrow and grey. 

 Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Zomba, British Central Africa. 



104. CULEX IMPUDICUS, Ficalbi (" F. E." p. 295). 



Tarsi uniformly nearly black. Tkiorax dark brownish-grey, 

 with two longitudinal, brassy lines behind ; pleurae white- 

 spotted. Abdominal segments dark, with white narrow basal 

 bands, and hinder borders. Claspers of <? , exceptionally large 

 and of peculiar form. Tarsal claws of 2 , equal, simple. 



Head dark, with the nape and orbits clear grey. Proboscis, nearly 

 black ; palpi of the ^ , pointed, surpassing the proboscis by the length of 

 the entire last joint, together with the end of the penultimate ; nearly 

 black, as also are those of the $ . Antennae in both sexes, with the 

 verticils nearly black, and the stem with alternate white and black rings, 

 the latter being the narrower ; the basal joint nearly black, bordered with 

 white scales. Pleurae dark, spotted and speckled with white. Legs with 

 the coxse speckled white, elsewhere nearly black except the midersides of 

 the femora, which are yellowish. Venter whitish, with black lateral 

 spots placed near the bases of the segments (in the ? only). Length. — 6*5 

 to 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Sardinia and Sicilv 



105. CULEX HIRSUTEROS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 98). 



Tarsi uniformly brown. Thorax brown, with scattered creamy 

 scales (a dark median stripe when denuded). Abdomen deep 

 brown, with basal bands of white scales, except on the last two 

 segments, which show only a basal patch of white scales on each 

 side. Tarsal claws of $ , all symmetrical, thick, and uniserrate. 



2 • — Head dark brown, densely covered with creamy curved scales 

 in the middle, and with scattered upright forked ones ; sides of the head, 

 with a small patch of almost black, flat scales ; antennae nearly brown, 

 with a few pale scales on the inner side of the basal joint ; palpi 

 covered with brown, to almost black, scales ; proboscis, very dark brown, 

 faintly testaceous at the base ; clypeus, deep testaceous. Pleurae reddisli- 

 brown, with white patches. Legs brownish, rather yellowish on the 

 femora, which sometimes have a knee-spot, in the hinder pair. Halteres 

 ochreous. Venter, pale brown. Length. — Little over 3 mm. 



Habitat. — Woodstock, Virginia, U.S.A. 



