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All are in such bad condition that they are totally unrecognisable, but from their 

 size there is no reason to suppose that Storey's identification is incorrect. 



The larva was found by Barraud in small numbers near Basra. The accompanymg 

 fic^ures have been prepared from a comparison of two mounted skins presented by 

 him to the British Museum. The extremely short siphon, with all the hair-tufts 

 placed in a slightly zigzag row in the mid- ventral line, is very remarkable, and very 

 suggestive of the siphon of Lutzia. to which genus C. pusillus and C. modestus also 



Fig. 14. Citlex pusillus (Macq.) Storey, end of abdomen of larva ; comb and pecten teeth and 



mentum more highly magnified. 



show a marked resemblance in the structure of the male hypop^/gium. There is no 

 sign, however, of any modification of the larval mouth-parts for predaceous habits, 

 and the anal segment is differently shaped. 



Distribution. — Egypt {Storey). Mesopotamia (Barraud). 



Subgenus Culiciomyia, Theo. 

 Head in both sexes with a narrow rim of small flat scales along the upper orbital 

 margin. Male palpi with a row of long scales projecting inwards from the apical 



