Genus Cidicada. 345 



golden -brown ; roetanotum deep brown \ pleurae deep brown with 

 flat creamy white scales, also the prothoracic lobes. 



Abdomen deep brown clothed with flat yellow scales, a few 

 dusky ones in the middle of each segment ; basal segment with 

 creamy white scales, apical segments paler than the preceding 

 ones ; border-bristles pale golden-yellow ; venter densely clothed 

 with pale creamy scales. 



Legs unhanded, coxae brown with pale scales ; femora 

 yellowish, dark towards the apex, tip white ; tibiae with scattered 

 pale and dark scales above, pale yellow and white scales below ; 

 first tarsals black above, dull yellowish below ; other tarsals 

 black ; ungues all equal, large, black and uniserrated. 



Wings with the veins yellowish or brown according to the 

 light ; costa dark ; base of wings yellowish ; fork-cells short, first 

 sub-marginal much narrower and a little longer than the second 

 posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the apex of the wing, its 

 stem nearly as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior as 

 long as the cell; posterior cross- vein longer than the mid, not 

 quite its own length distant from it. 



Halteres yellowish, the knob darker and clothed with grey 

 scales. 



Length. — 6 mm. 



Time of capture. — April (29th). 



Habitat. — Budapest, Hungary (Kertesz). 



Observations. — Red escribed from a perfect J . I see no reason 

 to doubt that this is Fabricius' species — it answers to his short 

 description and is the only European species I have seen that 

 does so. Gulex bicolor, Meigen, can at once be told from it 

 by the pipiens-like venation and the simpler thorax and simple 

 ungues. 



Culex flavescens, Theobald, comes very near this insect but has 

 banded tarsi. 



Culicada quasimodesta. Theobald (1905). 



Culex quasi moclestus. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 88 (1905). 



Head brown with golden narrow-curved scales ; palpi brown : 

 proboscis dull yellowish brown basally, deep brown apically. 

 Thorax deep brown with dull golden-brown narrow-curved scales 

 showing some ornamentation. Abdomen deep brown with 



