DARK-FOOTED CULICES ; ABD. LATERALLY SPOTTED 461 



of the wings, and the pleurae whitish. Abdominal segmeats not 

 banded, but with a silvery spot on either side. Knees with a 

 minute spot. 



Head and appendages intensely violet-black, but for narrow silvery 

 eye-borders. Scutellum ochreous, violet-brown scaled above and fringed 

 with long hairs ; metanotuni red-brown. Legs violet-black, with some 

 white scales intermixed on the basal halves of the femora. Halteres with 

 pale stems and dusky knobs. Venter densely silver- scaled. Length. — 

 Under 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Australia (N.S.W.). No specimens of this species have 

 been received in the British Museum. 



123. CULEX IRACUNDUS, Walker (" List," p. 6). 



Tarsi unhanded. Thorax dark brown, with pale golden 

 linear curved scales. x\bdomen purple-black, with white lateral 

 spots. Tarsal claws of $ , equal and simple. 



Head fusco-testaceous ; palpi of $ , rather shorter than the proboscis. 

 Pleurae brown, with white scales. Wings with stem of ant. fork cell half 

 the length of the cell, and 4 far internal to 3 : the type is too rubbed to 

 admit of certainty, but Mr. Theobald thinks that the characters of the 

 wing-scales are those of Tceniorhynchus, rather than of Cnlex. Halteres 

 pale, with dusky knobs. Length. — 8h hues. 



Habitat. — New Zealand. 



124. CULEX FREETOWNENSIS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 69). 



Thorax dark brownish-grey, with long greyish scales, and 

 three lines of black bristles. Abdomen dusky-brown, with small 

 lateral patches of white scales on the apical borders of the 

 segments ; venter pale, ochreous when denuded. ? , ungues 

 equal and simple ; fore and mid ungues of the ^ , unequal, uni- 

 serrated, the fore nearly straight, the smaller only a little shorter 

 than the larger; the mid more unequal, the larger one curved; 

 hind ungues equal and simple, small. 



Head brown, with a border of brownish- wliite scales around tlie eyes, 

 and over the occiput, with numerous scattered dark upright forked 

 ones ; proboscis black, slightly paler at the tip ; palpi black in the $ , 

 deep brown in the <?, with scanty black tufts. Pleurae brown, with 

 white patches. Legs deep brown, with rather a coppery sheen ; coxae, 

 bases of the femora, and their ventral surfaces, pale grey. Halteres with 

 pale stems and fuscous knobs. Venter yellowisli. Lengtli. — 4'5 to 

 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Freetown, Sierra Leone. 



