358 F. W. EDWARDS. 



Ochlerotatus eatoni, sp. n. 



Culex eatoni, Theobald, M.S. 



(J. Head and thorax coloured and scaled as in 0. oreophilus, except that the integu- 

 ment of the scutellum is dark, Avhile that of the postnotum is blackish-brown with a 

 more distinct pale lateral stripe towards the base ; the pale thoracic lines are composed 

 of golden-yellow rather than creamy- white scales and are rather less distinct ; the 

 two outer of the three longitudinal lines are narrowly interrupted just in front of the 

 point from which arises the branch running to the lateral angle. Palpi only two- 

 thirds as long as the proboscis, black, two last joints moderately hairy, the penultimate 

 about half as long again as the terminal. Abdomen black, the segments with large 

 silvery- white basal lateral spots, continuous with narrow dull white basal bands ; 

 venter black, the segments with pure white basal bands. Genitalia : side-pieces 

 more or less cylindrical, nearly straight, without basal or apical lobes, some long dark 

 hairs above and numerous very long yellow ones below ; clasper flattened except 

 towards the tip, curved, with a long terminal spine ; harpagones with the terminal 

 appendage very long, curved, bristle-like. Legs : all the femora black above, white 

 below except towards the tip, the white not extending quite so far on the hind femora ; 

 middle and hind femora with a small whitish spot at the tip ; tibiae and tarsi entirely 

 black ; larger claw on fore and mid feet with basal and median teeth, the smaller 

 with median tooth only ; hind claws simple. Wings with blackish scales which 

 (towards the apex) are almost linear ; bases of fork cells about level. Halteres with 

 yellow stem and black knob. 



Length 5 mm. ; proboscis 3 mm. 



Madeira Is. : Monte Funchal, 2,000 ft., 7.iii.l902 (Rev. A. E. Eaton). 



One male presented to the British Museum by the collector. 



Although from widely separated localities, this species and the preceding seem to 

 be very closely allied ; the difference in leg-markings however will sufficiently 

 distinguish them ; it is unfortunate that we have only the male of 0. eatoni and only 

 the female of 0. oreophilus. Of previously described species the one which most 

 resembles 0. eatoni is the Himalayan 0. pulchriventer, Giles, which differs principally 

 in the absence of distinct markings on the thorax and in its remarkable male genitalia, 

 which resemble those of the American genus Haemagogus. 



€ulex nilgiricus, sp. n. (fig. 1). 



(J 5. Head with dark brown upright scales ; creamy- white flat and narrow curved 

 ones at the sides and in the middle respectively ; the whitish more numerous in 

 proportion to the dark brown ones in the male than in the female, and the flat ones 

 extending higher up ; the flat ones tend to form a line round the upper part of the 

 eye margins, but in neither sex do they actually reach the middle line. A row of dark 

 bristles round the eyes, of which a pair on the vertex are much longer than the others, 

 at least in the female. Palpi and proboscis entirely black-scaled in both sexes ; 

 male palpi longer than the proboscis by their terminal joint ; basal segment without 

 any row of projecting scales, but with some pale shortish hairs and with a few long 

 dark ones towards the tip ; second and third joint with numerous long dark hairs, 

 the second nearly five times as long as the labella, the third about one- quarter longer 



