CULICES WITH TAESI AND ABD. UNADORNED 467 



$ . — Head dark brown, covered with a few pale creamy curved scales, 

 golden upright forked ones in the middle, and forked black ones over the 

 whole surface ; palpi rather long, black, testaceous at the base ; clypeus 

 brown ; proboscis black-scaled ; antennae dark brown, with the basal 

 joint, and base of the second, reddish yellow ; pubescence pallid, hairs 

 black. ScuteUum bright testaceous. Pleurae bright brown, with indistinct 

 paler patches. Legs with pale coxae and bases to the femora, knee- 

 spots orange, rest dark brown, with duU ochreous reflections. Halteres 

 entirely ochreous. Venter yellowish. Length. — 5 mm. It is the only 

 Australian species at present known, with the legs and abdomen alike 

 unhanded. 



Habitat. — Victoria, Australia. 



135. CULEX INYIDIOSUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 329). 

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



Tarsi uniformly deep brown. Thorax deep chestnut-brown. 

 Abdomen blackish-brown, quite unadorned. Tarsal claws of ? , 

 small, equal and simple. Much resembles Mdcs niger in colour- 

 ation. 



2 . — Head deep brown, almost black ; the occiput covered with duU 

 ochreous grey narrow curved, and black upright forked scales ; flat scales 

 of lateral patches, small, dull-white ; a narrow rather indistinct grey 

 border round the eyes ; clypeus deep chestnut-brown ; proboscis deep 

 blackish-brown ; palpi short, densely black scaled ; antennae brown, basal 

 joint testaceous in the centre. Scutellum rich shiny brown, with six 

 bristles to the mid lobe and four on each of the lateral ; pleurae paler brown. 

 Legs deep brown ; coxae and bases of femora pale. Halteres ochreous, 

 with dusky knobs. Venter brown, reddish at the base, very hirsute ; 

 lateral scales violet-grey in some lights. Length. — 3'2 mm. 



Habitat. — Bonny, Africa ; May. 



136. CULEX INYENUSTUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 330). 

 (Rept. Liverpool School Tropical Med. 1901. ) 



Tarsi uniformly dark brown. Thorax dark brown, showing 

 when denuded three dark lines. Fore and mid femora much 

 dilated. Tarsal claws of J , small, much curved, equal and simple. 



$ . — Head almost black, with narrow ochreous grey curved scales, 

 blackish and brown thin upright forked ones, white flat scales at the 

 sides, and a narrow white border round the eyes ; eyes black ; palpi short, 

 dark brown ; proboscis rather short, dark brown, testaceous at the tip ; 

 antennae dark brown, basal joint black, last two joints very hairy ; 

 clypeus black. ScuteUuin greyish-brown ; pleurae yeUowish-brown, 



