428 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Length. — 4*3 mm. 



Habitat— Bombay (Biro, 1902). 



Observations. — Described from a single perfect ? . It can 

 be told from all other species of Gulex by the very marked 

 thoracic ornamentation, which resembles that of a Corethra. 



Type in the National Museum, Budapest. 



Culex tortilis. Theobald (1903). 

 The Entomologist, XXXVI., p. 281 (1903) ; Mosq. Jamai., p. 26 (1905). 



Head golden scaled ; proboscis unhanded ; thorax adorned 

 with golden scales and a large dark brown patch on each side in 

 front, the back of the mesonotum also darkened ; pleurae with 

 grey scales. Abdomen deep brown, with violet reflections ; the 

 second, third, fourth and fifth segments with narrow basal pale 

 bands ; venter pale yellow scaled. Legs deep brown, unhanded ; 

 femora and coxae white beneath. Ungues equal. 



9 . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved golden-yellow 

 scales, a few black bristles and ochraceous upright forked scales ; 

 proboscis and palpi deep brown ; antennae brown ; basal segment 

 testaceous ; second segment very large and swollen, deep brown. 



Thorax deep brown, the middle of the mesonotum clothed 

 with narrow-curved golden scales ; on each side in front is a 

 roundish deep brown patch and the posterior part of the meso- 

 notum has darker scales than the front, being almost brown, but 

 not so dark as the front lateral areas ; scutellum with dull 

 golden-brown scales and brown border-bristles ; metanotum 

 bright chestnut-brown ; pleurae pale brown, with spots of grey 

 scales. 



Abdomen black in some lights, deep rich dull violet in others ; 

 the first segment with dusky scales, forming two spots and with 

 pale golden hairs ; the second, third, fourth and fifth segments 

 with narrow pale yellowish basal bands, not extending quite 

 across the segments ; the fifth sometimes very inconspicuous ; 

 basal lateral white spots prominent on the apical segments ; 

 venter clothed with creamy-yellow scales ; border-bristles of the 

 dorsum pale golden. 



Legs deep brown except the coxae and under side of femora 

 which are grey to creamy-yellow ; femora, tibiae and hind first 

 tarsals with black bristles ; hind first tarsals very nearly as long 

 as the hind tibiae ; fore and mid ungues equal, uniserrated ; hind 

 ungues equal and simple. 



