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patches of whitish scales towards their bases beneath, extend- 
ing apically as a narrow ill-defined whitish line, not so con- 
spicuous as that of C. pipiens. Hairs of antennae dark brown, 
golden towards the base. 
orax light brown, scarcely at all tinged with red, mesono- 
tum and scutellum clothed with narrow light ochreous scales 
not very closely placed. Median lobe of scutellum with about 
eight, lateral lobes with about four bristles. Wings : lateral 
vein scales very narrow, almost hair-like; median short and 
Upper fork-cell about as long as its stem, its base slightly nearer 
the base of the wing than that of the lower. Halteres light 
brown, knob blackish. Legs black scaled ; femora (especially 
the hind pair) whitish beneath ; fairly distinct white spots at 
the apices of the femora and tibiae. Claws of fore and mid 
legs each with a single tooth. 
Abdomen.--Each of segments 2-7 clothed with blackish 
brown scales on its apical half (or rather more), white scales 
on its basal half. The white bands are somewhat indented on 
each side of the middle, leaving a median projection, the last 
two being somewhat expanded laterally. Venter whitish. 
Hypopygium: Side pieces with a distinct tuft of hairs at the 
apex, plainly visible with a hand lens, but apt to become 
lower one toothed. 
- Resembles the male. Palpi black scaled, about one- 
fifth as long as the proboscis. Upper fork cell about twice as 
long as its stem, its base considerably nearer the base of the 
wing than that of the lower. 
emarks.— 'This species comes near C. pipiens, from which, 
however, it is abundantly distinct by the lighter thorax, shorter 
which it most resembles in coloration is the Oriental C. pallido- 
thorax, Theo. ( = C. albopleura, Theo. = Culiciomyia annulo- 
abdominalis, Theo.), but that species has very different fork- 
ceils, the base of the lower being nearer to the base of the wing 
than that of the upper ; it also has the row of transparent out- 
standing scales on the male palpi characteristic of the genus (or 
group) Culiciomyia, which is certainly not present in C. lati- 
cinctus. 
Occurrence.—Tiberias, 2¢ {including type, in the British 
Museum), 52. Also Gibraltar, July 1909, 5¢, 52 (Major 
C. E. P. Fowler). 
