404 



A Monograph of Culicidae. 



spot, other segments with basal creamy bands, pallid border- 

 bristles and brown lateral ones. 



Legs deep brown, femora pale beneath, knee spot creamy 

 white, all the tarsal segments except the last with small apical 

 creamy spots or bands ; fore and mid ungues unequal, both 

 uniserrafce (?), hind small equal and simple. 



Wings with short fork-cells, their bases about level, the 

 first sub-marginal longer and narrower than the second posterior, 

 the stems nearly as long as the cells ; posterior cross- vein about 

 twice its own length distant from the mid. 



Male genitalia with the claspers fairly broad, not much 

 curved, a small thin expanding lateral apical segment ; lateral 



Fig. 171. 

 Male genitalia of Culex subfuscm. n. sp. 



process of basal lobe with three large flat spines, the median one 

 broadest and curved hook-like apically, the basal one the 

 smallest, foliate plate rather short and broad ; setaceous lobes 

 large and prominent with many large broad spines and two 

 broad flattish processes beneath them ; basal lobes with very long 

 chaetae. 



Length, — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Moncague, Jamaica (Lord Walsingham). 



Time of capture. — February. 



Observation*. — Described from a single $ . The genitalia 

 mounted in balsam. It comes near C. secutor and allies in 

 general appearance, but may at once be told by the apical 

 segment of the palpi being longer than the penultimate, by the 



