Genus Megaculex. 283 



Mjegaculex albitarsis. Theobald (1901). 

 Culex albitarsis. Theobald (1901). 



Mono. Culicid. II., p. 25 (1901), and III., p. 186 (1903), Theobald (not the 

 9 albitarsis of Neveu-Lemaire, Archives di Parasitologic, VI., p. 10, 1902). 



The q only so far described. 



5 . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved pale creamy 

 scales in the middle, bordered by flat dusky scales which extend 

 backwards on each side of the head, dull ochreous in front, 

 numerous black upright forked scales ; palpi rather more than 

 one-fourth the length of the proboscis, brown basally, then 

 ochreous, then brown again, a pale ochreous patch towards the 

 base ; proboscis deep ochraceous, with a few scattered brown 

 scales and a black apex ; antennae very long, as long as the 

 proboscis, deep brown, basal segment and part of the second 

 bright ochreous with small dusky flat scales. 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved bronzy-brown scales, 

 paler at the sides and over the roots of the wings, and some 

 mixed pale ones before the scutellum ; numerous black chaetae 

 projecting forwards over the head and golden brown ones over 

 the roots of the wings ; scutellum brown with small narrow- 

 curved dusky scales on the mid lobe, creamy ones on the lateral 

 lobes, twelve posterior border-bristles to the mid lobe ; metanotum 

 brown ; pleurae pale brown with some areas of small flat pale 

 scales, a tuft of long pale hairs under the base of the wing. 



Abdomen deep brown with basal white bands and median 

 lateral white spots ; venter golden. The basal segment is com- 

 pletely clothed with deep violet-brown scales and long pale 

 golden chaetae. 



Legs deep brown, femora pale ochreous at base and beneath ; 

 the last two hind tarsals and apical half of the penultimate 

 snowy white ; ungues equal and simple on all the legs ; a trace 

 of narrow pale bands at base of first and second tarsals on the 

 mid and hind legs, and even traces at the base of the others on 

 the fore legs. 



Wings with the fork-cells very small, the first sub-marginal a 

 little longer and narrower than the second posterior, its stem 

 about one and two-thirds the length of the cell, its base nearer the 

 apex of the wing ; stem of the second posterior cell not quite 

 twice as long as the cell ; supernumerary cross-vein shorter than 

 and a little in front of the mid, posterior cross-vein very long, 



