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192 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SIX NEW SPECIES OF CULICID^ FROM INDIA, 

 jj By Lt.-Col. G. M. Giles, M.B., F.R.C.S., I.M.S. 



(Communicated by F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S.) 



CULEX TRIT^NIOKHYNCHUS, Sp. 11. 



Wings unspotted. Tarsi minutely basally banded, pale ochreous. 

 Thorax unadorned, fuscous. Abdominal segments fuscous, with rather 

 narrow yellowish white basal bands. Proboscis with three ochreous 

 bands. 



A minute species of generally dusky tinting and proportionately 

 long legs. Head fuscous ; eyes with a barely perceptible whitish mar- 

 gin ; nape fuscous, with a few whitish hairs. Antennte fuscous, 

 minutely banded white in the male. Proboscis fuscous, with three 

 separate ochreous bands, one forming the tip ; the second sharply 

 defined, and much broader beyond the middle ; the third less sharply 

 defined, especially in the female, midway between the large band and 

 the base. Palpi (male) considerably longer than the proboscis, ex- 

 ceeding it by more than the length of the markedly subulate terminal 

 joint, fuscous, with minute white basal bands to the last three joints ; 

 female exceptionally minute, nearly black, with an indistinct greyish 

 tip. Thorax fuscous, with golden brown tomentum, unadorned. 

 Wings hyaline, with nearly black scales. Axillary vein joining costa 

 a little in front of base of anterior fork-cell, and slightly behind tip of 

 anterior branch of five longitudinal ; supernumerary and middle trans- 

 verse veins in one line, and fully their united length outside the pos- 

 terior transverse. Fork-cells both narrow and of nearly equal width, 

 but the anterior the longer ; their stems short, the posterior being a 

 little the longer, so that the base of the corresponding cell is slightly 

 outside that of the anterior fork-cell. Halteres pale yellow. Legs 

 fuscous ; the tarsi with minute ochreous basal bands to all the joints ; 

 first post-tarsal joint longer than the corresponding tibia in both sexes. 

 Abdomen fuscous, with rather narrow yellowish white basal bands to 

 the segments, broader in the middle than laterally, especially on the 

 anterior segments. Length of wing of male 2-4 mm., of female 3 mm. 



Hah. Madras, 



CuLEX PSEUDO-T^NIATUS, Sp. D.* 



Wings unspotted. Tarsi black, with white rings formed on the 

 bases and apices of contiguous joints. Thorax black, elaborately 

 adorned with fine white lines (almost as in C. tmiiatus,^ Meig. ). 

 Abdominal segments black, with narrow basal bands ; venter pale 

 fawn. The general coloration is an intense violet-black. 



This species bears a strong resemblance to C. notoscriptus, Skuse, 

 and to C. tmiiatns, but may be easily distinguished by the position of 

 the tarsal banding, and its wanting the white band on the proboscis of 

 the former species. 



* This comes in my genus Stegomyia (F. V. T.). 



1 This is synonymous with Culex fasciatus, Fabr. (F. V. T.). 



