Genus Culex. 417 



9 . Head deep brown, with narrow-curved golden-brown 

 scales in the middle, flat grey ones at the sides, with ochreous 

 upright forked scales at the middle, dark ones at the sides, and 

 flat grey ones laterally. Proboscis and palpi dark brown. 

 Antennae and clypeus deep brown. 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved golden scales, some- 

 what smaller over the humeral area, with two median bare lines 

 showing as two dark areas ; bristles brown, somewhat golden 

 apically ; scutellum brown, with golden narrow-curved scales ; 

 metanotum deep brown ; pleurae greyish-brown to brown. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown with golden-brown lateral and 

 posterior border-bristles ; venter pale scaled. 



Legs deep brown with violet reflections, bases of the femora 

 pale, ungues small, equal and simple. 



Wings with typical deep brown Culex scales, dense on the 

 apical portions of the veins ; the first sub-marginal cell much 

 longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base much nearer the base of the wing, its stem a little less than 

 half the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior nearly 

 as long as the cell ; the posterior cross-vein much shorter than 

 the mid, about twice its own length distant from it, the mid 

 cross- vein the largest of the three. 



Length. — 3 mm. 



Time of capture. — November. 



Habitat. — South Queensland (Dr. Brancroft). 



Observations. — described from a single $ . It resembles a 

 Melanoconion in general appearance, but the wing scales are of 

 Culex type. No other Australasian species has the unhanded 

 abdomen and unhanded legs. 



Culex restuan^. Theobald (1901). 



Mono. Culicid. Vol. II., p. 142 (1901), Theobald; N. J. Agri. Exp. Sta. Bull. 



171, p. 16 (1904), Smith. 



Additional localities. — New Jersey (J. B. Smith) ; Jefferson 

 Barracks, Montana ; New York ; Massachusetts (Miss Ludlow) ; 

 New Hampshire (Dr. Dyar). 



Observations. — Professor J. B. Smith points out that the 

 larvae of this species do not occur in foul water, but in rain- 

 barrels. 



It resembles generally that of C. pipiens, but the anal tube is 

 different in shape and the antennae have a smaller tuft of hairs 



vol. iv, 2 E 



