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a rather remarkable distribution, which is exactly parallelled by that oi Thcohaldia 

 ll^eolata. I believe the foUowing are new records :-Asia MmorKoma and 

 Bashara, Nadav) ; Persia (Enzeli, Buxton) ; West Caspian (Lenkoian. Kar^ch) , 

 Libyan Desert (Bulag, W. J. H. King). 



Fig 16. Culex tipuliformis, Theo.. end of abdomen of larva ; comb and pecten teeth and 

 ''■ mentum more highly magnified. 



15, Culex virgatipes, Edw. 



Culex virgatipes, Edwards. Bull. Ent. Res. v, p. 126 (1914). 



Differs from C. tipuliformis in the male hypopygium, which is extremely similar 

 to that of the African C. tnfilatus, Edw., in the uniformly reddish-brown mesonotal 

 scales and in the abdominal markings. The cross-veins are on the average more 



