DARK-FOOTED GULICES ; ABD. LATERALLY SPOTTED 459 



if this be accurate, it is the only instance of such an arrangenaent in tlie 

 5 , out of over 800 species he has examuied. 



Habitat. — Japan (no specimens have been received in the British 

 Museum). 



118. CULEX ATRATUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 55). 



Tarsi nearly black. Thorax deep umber-brown to almost 

 black. Abdomen black, sometimes with a dull coppery-brown 

 sheen ; each segment with small lateral basal white spots, most 

 distinct on the apical segments ; venter with broad basal creamy 

 bands. Fore and mid ungues of the ^ , unequal, the larger with 

 a long median tooth, the smaller with a sharp basal tooth ; hind 

 equal and simple. 



Head with whitish, curved linear, and black erect forked scales, rather 

 darker just inside the lateral flat-scaled patches, with a bare median line 

 in the ^ , darker on the frons, but with white orbits. Appendages dark 

 brown to black ; palpi of $ , not quite so long as the proboscis, the fourth 

 joint and end of third, much expanded and armed with strong black tufts ; 

 proboscis of ? , much expanded near the end. Wing with the scales of 

 the anterior long veins wider than common. Pleuras brownish, with a 

 row of black bristles down to the coxae of mid legs. Legs dark brown, 

 to almost black, except at the base ; a pale knee-spot, and another at 

 the tibio-metatarsal joint. Halteres with a dark lateral line on the 

 pale stem and the knob fuscous. Ventral segments impure white, with 

 narrow black hinder borders. Length. — Under 3 mm. 



Habitat. — West Indies; Jamaica, Trinidad. "A terrible pest in 

 mangrove swamps." 



119. CULEX SCHOLASTICUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 120). 



Thorax chestuut-brown, with small dark brown curved scales, 

 and traces of two paler longitudinal lines ; abdomen covered with 

 dusky scales, each segment with a lateral, dull white, basal 

 triangular spot. Tarsal claws of the $ , small, equal, simple ; of 

 the J , unequal in fore and mid legs, equal and simple in hind ; 

 fore and mid uniserrated. 



Head with grey, curved linear, and black, erect forked scales, and with 

 lateral Hat-scaled white patches, quite silvery in the ^ ; antennte brown, 

 brindled in the <? ; palpi of ? , black ; those of <? , longer than the 

 proboscis by almost all the two last joints, brown at base, black at apex, 

 subulate, and not tufted. PleuriB pale brownish-grey, with a few white 

 scales. Legs unhanded, covered with deep purplish-black scales with 



