DARK-FOOTED CULICES ; ABD. PALE MEDIAN STRIPE 4()8 



Venter grey. Fork-cells of wings short Tarsal claws of 5 , very 

 small, equal, and simple. 



$ . — Head brown, with pale curved, and black upright forked scales, 

 and orbits formed of white curved scales ; antennte brown, with pale 

 bands, basal joint large and testaceous, dark on the inside ; palpi black- 

 scaled, testaceous at the base ; clypeus chestnut-brown ; proboscis dark 

 brown scaled, short, a little longer than the antennse ; eyes deep purplish- 

 black. Pleura^ pale silvery-grey. Legs black, unhanded, base and venter 

 of femora grey, knee and tibial spots orange. Wing with fork of II in- 

 ternal to that of IV, its cells two and half times the length of the stem ; 

 and with 4 far internal to 3. Halteres with yellow stem and dark knobs. 

 Venter grey. Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Grenada, West Indies. 



128. CULEX RIMOSUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 327). 

 (Rept. Liverpool School Trop. Med. 1901.) 



Tarsi dark brown, with their undersides somewhat yellowish. 

 Thorax deep brown. Abdomen deep brown, with metallic bronzy 

 and violet reflections, with four white apical lateral spots on the 

 hinder segments, and grey venter. Legs deep brown, unbanded. 

 Wings with rather broad scales, like G. atrahis, Theobald. Tarsal 

 claws of ? , small, curved, equal and simple. 



5 . — Head dark brown, with narrow curved dull-gi-ey scales and 

 numerous short upright black ones ; clypeus black, with a transverse 

 sulcus ; antennae brown, with reddish-brown basal joint ; proboscis black, 

 testaceous at the apex ; palpi rather thick, black ; scuteUum deep ferru- 

 ginous, with the margin grey. Pleurse greyish-bi'own. Legs, with the 

 coxfe and undersides of femora very pallid ; elsewhere deep brown. 

 Halteres yellowish, with dusky knobs. Length. — 2'8 mm. 



Habitat. — Old Calabar, West Africa. 



Observations. — Mr. Theobald considers it probable that the pecu- 

 liarities of the wing-scales of this species, and of his C. atratus from 

 Jamaica, may be of genei-ic value. 



Subdivision vii. — Culices with unhanded tarsi and the abdomen 

 unbanded, bid tvith a pale median line. 



129. C. trilineatiis, Theob. Tliorax gold-coloured, with three dark 



lines. Abdomen ochreous m the middle, dark at the sides. 

 Venter yellow. 



130. C. ochraceus, Theob. Abdomen black at the sides, with a 



sharply-defined, serrated yellow median stripe. Thorax black, 

 with broad golden lateral lines. Venter yellow. 



