386 Mr. F. V. Theobald. On the Culicidce of India, 



(3/3. Thorax adorned. 



Thorax with two or three dusky, longitudinal lines ; basal 

 abdominal bands curved, white or creamy. 



fatigans. (Wiedemann.) 

 Abdominal bands swollen into a median, triangular patch. 



angulatus. (Theobald.)! 



Culex mimeticus. (Noe.) 



'Boll. d. Soc. Ent. Ital.,' 31, p. 240 (1897), Noe; 

 'Mono. Culicid.,' 1, p. 329 (1901), Theobald. 



Thorax brown, with dark stripes and with golden curved scales. 

 Abdomen brown, with basal white bands ; venter white. Legs brown, 

 metatarsi and tarsi with basal white bands and traces of apical ones. 

 Proboscis banded. Wings spotted with brown and yellow along the 

 costa, three yellow spots. 



Length. 5 to 6 mm. 



Habitat. Punjaub ; Perak ; Italy. 



Observations. Apparently a common species in parts of Northern 

 India and Malay Peninsula. Easily told by its wings, resembling 

 those of an Anopheles. There seems to be considerable variation in 

 size in the specimens I have recently seen. 



Culex spathipalpis. (Rondani.) 



'Dipt. Ital. Prodro.,'vol. 1 (1886), Rondani; 'Mono. Culicid.,' 1, 

 p. 339 (1901), Theobald. 



Thorax umber-brown, with a median line of white scales, a bent 

 white lateral line, and another more indistinct on each side below. 

 Abdomen yellow scaled, with scattered black ones which form patches, 

 basally banded white, the bands expanding backwards in the middle of 

 the second and third segments and produced laterally. Legs with 

 lines of white spots, often almost forming stripes ; metatarsi and some 

 of the tarsi basally banded white. Wings with three small more or 

 less distinct patches of scales. 



Length of ? 7 to 8 mm. ; of $ 7 to 8 mm. 



Habitat. India (Naini Ta,l) ; Italy ; Gibraltar ; Palestine. 



Observations. A very marked species occurring in Europe and India. 

 The spotted legs and wings and its large size will at once separate it. 



Culex microannulatus. (Theobald.) 

 ' Mono. Culicid.,' 1, p. 353 (1901), Theobald. 



Thorax brown, with curved golden-brown scales and three rows of 

 dark bristles ; abdomen dark brown with basal greyish-white bands. 



