268 Dr. W. M. Graham on new 



bands and basal lateral spots ; border- bristles pale golden. 

 Venter pale- scaled, with narrow daik apical bands. L'gs 

 dark purple- brown, with yellowish-white banding which in- 

 volves both sides of the joints with the exception of the knee- 

 joints, where the band is apical only. The last two segments 

 of the tarsi are pale brown on the fore and mid pair of legs 

 and yellowish white upon the hind legs, in the latter involving 

 ahout \ of the third segment also. Ungues all equal and 

 simple. Wings covered with pale brown pear-shaped scales ; 

 c( sta dark and somewhat bristly; forked cells small; the 

 first submargiual longer and narrower than second posterior ; 

 stem somewhat longer than the cell ; stem of second poste- 

 rior cell ^ longer than cell. Posterior cross-vein slightly 

 more than its own length behind the mid cross- vein. Nalterts : 

 stem pale, knobs purple-brown. 



Length '6 mm. 



<$ . — Resembles female. Palpi slightly longer than pro- 

 boscis ; apical segment swollen or " clubbed/'' with bright 

 golden bristles; somewhat behind the middle of the palpi 

 there is a pale band which extends beneath almost to the base. 

 Proboscis : there is an indistinct narrow band about ^ of the 

 length from the apex. Antennce : plume-hairs pale brown. 

 Wings as in female, but the ratio of stem to cell of first sub- 

 marginal cell somewhat greater. Ungues on fore and mid legs 

 unequal, uniserrate ; on hind legs equal, simple. 



Length 8 mm. 



Culex caliginosuSj sp. n, 



$ .- — Head black, with a triangular area of purple-brown 

 scales in front and white narrow curved scales behind; black 

 upright forked scales all over, brown bristles round the orbits, 

 KiiH pale briRtleg projecting forward between. the eyes. Palpi 

 dark brown, witli 'Gnu -vliite hairs at apex. Proh&stiis very 

 dark brown, unhanded. Clypeus'veiy vlark brown. Antennce 

 black, with narrow white bands at the whorls; basal segment 

 dark brown, with a few hair-like scales upon the inner half ; 

 plume-hairs very dark. Thorax dark brown, covered with 

 golden-brown scales, paler laterally ; an area of whitish 

 scales in front of the scutellum and above the insertion of the 

 wings. Four rows of dark brown bristles, becoming coarser 

 and denser behind. tScutellum : mid lobe with a small median 

 area of purple-brown scales behind, surrounded by white 

 scales. Lateral lobes with white scales ; eight dark bristles 

 to mid lobe, seven to lateral lobes. Metanotum very dark 

 brown. Pleura daik brown, with white-scaled patches. 



