318 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



of the cell ; posterior cross-vein slightly longer than the mid, about 

 one and a half times its own length distant from it, and sloping 



Fig. 110. 

 Pseudoculex punctipes. 9« n« sp. 



prominently backwards ; scales of the first long vein large and 

 dense, those of first fork-cell of Culex-iovm the stem and other 

 veins with broad spatulate median vein scales. 



Halteres with pale scales. 



Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Chinde, British Central Africa (F. O. Stoehr). 



Observations. — Described from a perfect ? . It is very 

 marked owing to the prominent spotted femora and tibiae, and 

 peculiarly adorned abdomen, which under a hand lens looks as if 

 unbanded. It somewhat approaches Taeniorhynchus tenax, 

 Theob., in general appearance, but the wings at once separate it, 

 and also the general adornment. 



Larvae of this species have been sent taken in a cistern at 

 Chinde, but as there are two kinds in the bottle, I do not know 

 which belongs to this species. 



Genus CULICADA, Felt. 



Mosquitoes or Culicidae, N. Y. State, App., 1904, p. 391b, Felt ; Journ. Eco. 

 Biolo., Vol. I., p. 26, 1905, Theobald. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen with similar scales to Culex. 

 Wings with short fork-cells and clothed with denser and larger 

 vein-scales than in Culex, the median vein scales especially so. 

 The palpi of the female longer than in Culex, of four segments, 

 the apical one small. The stem of the first sub-marginal cell is 

 usually short, but may be a little longer or a little shorter than 

 the cell. 



The genus can at once be separated from Culex by the short 

 fork-cells and the scale structure of the wings. 



