some British CulicRla3. 675 



somewliat paler over the roots of the wings ; scutellum testa- 

 ceous, deep brown along the border of the raid-lobe, and witli 

 a deep brown patch on each side between the mid- and side- 

 lobes, clothed with rather large, narrow, curved scales of 

 similar liue to those of the mesothorax ; posterior border- 

 bristles dense, pale golden ; pleurse deep brown, with pale 

 creamy flat scales ; metanotum brown. Abdomen blackisii, 

 with basal cieamy bands and pale brown to dull golden hairs; 

 basal segment witii many pale scales. 



Legs witii the femora and tibiae mottled brown and yellow, 

 the fore and mid metatarsi with narrow basal white bands, 

 also the first two tarsals; in the hind legs the bands are 

 broader and are present on all the segments ; fore and mid 

 ungues large, unequal, both uniserrated, the hind equal and 

 uniserrated. 



Wings with rather broad lateral vein-scales, especially on 

 the branches of the second long vein ; many scales on tlie 

 first long vein somewhat T(eniorhyiichus-Y\kQ. First sub- 

 marginal cell considerably longer and narrower than the 

 second posterior cell, their bases nearly level; stem of the 

 first submarginal cell nearly as long as the cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior longer than the cell ; mid cross-vein longer 

 than either the supernumerary or posterior cross-veins, the 

 latter about its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Male genitalia with claspers long and broad, spiny towards 

 the apex, the apical segment short and thick ; one side of the 

 apex of the basal lobes armed with short hook-like spines ; a 

 large pineapple-shaped densely tuberculate process from the 

 base of each side ; the two median processes long, composed 

 of two segments, the apical one broadly knife-shaped and 

 curved on its inner edge. 



Length 55 mm. 



Ilahitat. New Forest, Brockerdiurst (C 0. Walerhouse). 



Observations. Described from a single male easily told 

 from all other dark-banded- legged European species by the 

 very marked male genitalia. The male genitalia of the type 

 are preserved in balsam. The squamose characters of the 

 wing exclude it from Culex ; but until female material is 

 examined I prefer to leave it provisionally in that hetero- 

 genous genus. 



CuJex diversus, Theobald. 

 Mon. Culicid. p. 73 (1901) ($ only described). 

 J . Palpi deep violet-black, with traces of yellow scales at 

 the base of the two apical segments and on the antepenulti- 

 mate segment, the penultimate and a^jcxof the antcj)enullimate 



