Ixxvi NATURAL HISTORY. 



disc, and eight or nine arranged in a circle on the subtnembranous apex; margins 

 of abdominal segments beneath ochreous, and forming a row of dots down each side ; 

 legs dirty ochre somewhat freckled with piceous. 



The head is wanting to the only specimen I have seen ; it most resembles A. Zostera 

 of Fabricius, but is very distinct from my examples of that insect ; as some of its 

 larvae or pupae were found, it is probably not uncommon in the Polar Regions. 



Gen. 1094«.— PEDETICUS? {Lap.) 



25. Variegatus. Black, sides of thorax and numerous spots on the elytra whitish 

 ochre ; legs spotted with white and ochre. 



Length two lines and one-third. 



Black, clothed with shining pubescence and black hairs ; eyes large, very globose 

 and prominent, subferruginous striped with black, the clypeus, excepting a stripe 

 down the middle, apex of the labrum, internal margin of the eyes, and a triangular 

 spot on each side beneath, ochreous ; thorax trapezate, gibbose on the back, with 

 a fovea at the centre, the base very concave, the sides pale ochreous ; elytra with a pale 

 ochreous patch near the base, another beyond the middle, and a semiorbicular one at 

 the apex, divided into several spots by the black nervures, each bearing a blackish dot ; 

 legs hairy ; antepectus, coxae, trochanters, and base of thighs, excepting the anterior, 

 whitish ochre, the thighs striped beneath with black ; the tips, two broad bands on the 

 tibiae, excepting the posterior, and the apical portion of the basal joint of the tarsi, 

 ochreous. 



ORDER XV.— DIPTERA. 



Fam.— CULICID^. 



Gen. 1137.— CULEX. (Limi.) 



26. Caspius. (Pall.) Black, head and thorax griseous, abdomen with seven 

 white bands. 



From two to three lines long, from four to six broad. 



C. Pipiens. Fab: Faun. Granl.—p. 209, n. 171, 



Several females, but not one male, were brought home ; this may be accounted for, 



