Genus Culex. 389 



metanotum dark brown ; pleurae dark, with numerous patches of white 

 scales. 



Abdomen covered with very dark (almost black) scales and basal 

 white bands, sometimes extending as small lateral spots ; ventrally largely 

 white scaled with apical white spots on many of the segments. The 

 abdominal markings vary in definiteness in individuals, but the dorsal 

 bands and the ventrolateral apical spots seem persistent, while the very 

 small dorso-lateral spots are not. 



Legs; coxae and trochanters all more or less white scaled; femora 

 all dorsally dark brown, heavily sprinkled with white scales, white or 

 creamy knee spot sometimes involving both sides of the segment, ventrally 

 much lighter ; tibiae all dark, slightly sprinkled with white, and some- 

 times on the fore and mid legs, a narrow white ring at the apex ; all 

 first tarsals dark with narrow basal light bands, and that on the hind leg 

 somewhat heavier, and sometimes a few light scales scattered through the 

 dark ones ; second and third tarsal segments on fore and mid legs have 

 narrow light basal bands ; fourth and fifth segments dark, sometimes a 

 very small basal spot on the fourth ; all tarsal segments on hind legs with 

 heavy basal white bands. Fore and mid ungues equal, uniserrate ; hind 

 equal and simple. 



Wings heavily brown-scaled ; cells small ; first sub-marginal narrower 

 than and the same length as second posterior, the bases of the latter well 

 interior ; the stems of both nearly equal to the length of the cells ; super- 

 numerary cross- vein two-thirds the length of the mid cross- vein which it 

 meets, posterior cross-vein is as long as the mid- vein, and distant from it 

 more than its own length. Halteres light, knob white scaled. 

 Length. — 6 mm., with proboscis 9 mm. 



$ . Head much as in £ , except that the second pale band on the 

 sides is not so defined, and is perhaps lacking ( d 's not in good condition) ; 

 antennae are really brown, but the reflections make them look ochraceous ; 

 palpi dark, with a white spot at the bases of the ultimate and penultimate 

 segments, and a cream-coloured band dividing the remainder in halves, 

 the plumes are rather heavy and dark, but like those of the antennae, 

 often look mostly light ; proboscis very dark, with quite a narrow cream- 

 coloured band somewhat caudal of the middle (on a line with the anterior 

 band of the palpi). Thorax as in the ? , but very hairy. Claspers large. 

 Legs as in the $ . Fore and mid ungues very unequal, the larger 

 having a large tooth about midway, and a short, apparently spinous, 

 one at the base ; hind ungues equal and simple. 



Wings not so heavily scaled, and the first sub-marginal a little longer 

 than the second posterior, their bases nearly on a line ; the posterior cross- 

 vein a little shorter than the mid, and not quite its own length 

 distant. 



Habitat. — Mangarin and Dagupan, Philippine Islands. 

 Time of capture. — February to April. 



Observations. — The ? described from a lot (28) sent by Dr. Frank 

 Suggs from Mangarin, Mindoro ; the males from a lot (234) sent by 



