CULEX — DARK FEET, APICAL ABD. BANDING 455 



the banding being represented only by a brindling of black scales 

 towards their bases. Tarsal claws of 5 , long, black, simple. 



Head intensely black-grouudecl, with occiput and nape clothed 

 throughout with Unear curved, straw-coloured scales, mixed with erect 

 forked scales, which are of the same tmt in the middle, and black at the 

 sides so as to form an indistinct paler median patch ; lateral flat-scaled 

 areas and orbits creamy ; antennsE with the basal joint pale-scaled in 

 both sexes, mtensely black elsewhere in the J , very markedly banded in 

 the $ ; proboscis and other appendages clothed in the same way as 

 the tarsi, the paler scales preponderating on the tip of the former ; 

 palpi of $ , one-fourth the length of the proboscis, the paler scales very 

 numerous about their mid length internally ; those of $ , longer than the 

 ])roboscis bj' more than the length of the last joint, the base of which, 

 together with the apex of the next, is somewhat flattened out and 

 furnished with dense brushes of strong black hairs, the paler scales 

 preponderating on the articulations, so as to produce indistinct bandmg. 

 Pleur* grounded light brown, with creamy patches. Wings with III, 

 prolonged inwards as a distinct, unsealed vein. Halteres pale, with 

 reddish knobs. Legs with the femora and tibiae rather regularly beaded 

 with patches of the paler scales. Venter, creamy-white. Length. — 

 About 7*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Appears common throughout India in the rains, and 

 recorded also from Straits Settlement, and China, Fou Chow. Captam 

 James I. M.S., says the larva float nearly horizontally. 



112. CULEX FUSCANUS, Wied. (D. E. p. 9). 



Tarsi unhanded ; thorax rather dusky, with grizzly scales, 

 arranged so that the ground colour shows through as four 

 (darker) lines. Abdominal segments dusky, with light grey apical 

 bands. 



Generally dusky. Antennie dusky, palpi yellowish beneath, with two 

 white spots, fuscous. Wings yellowish on the costa. Legs yellowish- 

 fuscous. 



Habitat. — East India ; Malacca, Singapore, Sarawak (Wallace). 



Nothmg answering to this description has been received in the 

 British Museum. 



113. CULEX TERRITANS, Walker (MS. Saund. p. 428). 



Tarsi uniformly brown. Thorax brown, clothed with deep 

 golden-browu scales, with two median dark lines ; abdominal 

 segments brown, with whitish hinder borders. Tarsal claws of 

 $ , equal and simple. 



