NOTES OX CULICIOAK. 213 



entirely black-scaled : palpi of female a quarter as long as the proboscis, of male 

 slightly shorter than the proboscis, the last two joints thin, somewhat upturned, and 

 with very few hairs. Thorax : prothoracic lobes and area of me.'^>n()tum behind them 

 with flat white scales. Mesonotum blackish, with blackish brown and golden-vellow 

 scales, the latter arranged in definite, though not very sharply defined lines as follows : 

 a continuous margin to the mesonotum ; a median longitudinal line, forking just in 

 front of the scutellum ; a pair of short lines on the anterior half : a longer pair on the 

 posterior half, bent outwards at the suture. Scutellum with whitish vellow scales 

 in the middle of the median lobe, black ones on each side of these ; these scales are 

 narrow in the female, but much broader in the male : lateral lobes with a few black 

 scales ; spaces between the lobes bare. Pleurae with several patches of flat white 

 scales. Abdomen blackish above, the segments with brilliant white, basal, lateral 

 spots and small, dull white, median basal patches ; on the eighth tergite the lateral 

 spots meet in the middle. Venter black, the segments with brilliant white basal bands, 

 which are somewhat narrowed in the middle. Eighth sternite of female with fairly 

 numerous small flat whitish scales. Male genitalia : claspers strap-shaped, with a 

 rather long terminal spine ; side-pieces without apical or basal lobes ; harpagones 

 well developed, terminal spine long, curved, filiform. Legs : ^ front pair blackish ; 

 femora with a creamy-white patch on the basal half in front, tip also creamy-white ; 

 rather narrow white rings at the bases of the first three tarsal joints. Mid legs similar, 

 but the femora are whitish to the tip on the under side, the white tarsal rings are 

 rather broader, and there is a very narrow one on the fourth joint. Hind femora 

 white on their basal half, except for a narrow dorsal line : apical half with a broad 

 blackish ring, narrower beneath ; tips more broadly white than in the other legs ; 

 tarsal rings also broader, and there are a few white scales at the base of the fifth joint. 

 Fore and mid claws toothed, in the male the larger claw with two teeth. Wings 

 densely brown-scaled ; scales of the lateral series rather broadly linear. Upper fork- 

 cell with its base rather nearer the base of the wing than that of the lower. Halteres 

 with bare yellowish stem ; knob darker, with whitish scales on the outer side and 

 darker ones on the inner. 



Korea : 1 (^ 1 $ collected by Dr. R. G. Mills and received through Dr. A. T. 

 Stanton ; presented to the British Museum by the Imperial Burea^i of Entomologv. 



0. {F.) koreicns is rather closely allied to 0. (F.) jajmniais, Theo., differing chiefly 

 in the presence of white rings on the last two joints of the hind tarsi, in the less hairy 

 male palpi, and the rather differently constructed harpes of the male genitalia. 



Ochlerotatus (F.) fulgens, sp. nov. 



Resembles 0. {F.) longipalpis, Griinb. { = Stegomyia poUinctar, Graham), and is 

 probably only a geographical form of it, but shows the following differences :— 

 Palpi of female two-thirds as long as the proboscis, instead of only one-third. Space 

 m front of scutellum almost covered with flat silvery scales, not largely bare. Median 

 lobe of scutellum entirely covered with flat silvery scales, instead of having a patch 

 of black ones in the middle. Harpes of male genitalia without the minute notch at 

 the tip which occurs m 0. longipalpis. Hind tibiae entirely blue-black, without any 

 creamy patch at the base beneath. First joint of front tarsi entirely white beneath. 

 Fu-st joint of mid tarsi entirely white on the posterior and ventral surfaces, but without 



