2 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



two last joints black and hairy: a larqfe silvery spot on each side of 

 the chest: mouth as long as the feelers: legs very thickly clothed 

 with hairs, excepting the fore-legs and the shanks and feet of the 

 middle legs, where the hairs are short and more thin : wings slightly 

 tinged with brown, fringed; veins brown; poisers dull red, with 

 black tips. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Mrs. J. P. G. Smith. 



Psorophora, Desvoidy. 



Psorophora ciliata, Desv. Essai sur les Culicides, Mem. Soc. d'Hist. 



Nat. de Paris, iii. 412. 

 a. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



Culex, Linn. 

 * Feet with pale bands. 



Culex ciliatus. Fair. Ent. Syst. iv. 401, 6. Syst. And. 10. Coq. 



III. Icon. Ins. t. 27, /. 7. Wied. Dipt. Exot. i. 7, 4. Auss. 



Zweif. i. 3, 5. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 36, 15. 

 a. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 



Culex argyropus, n. s., fern. Niger, argenteo micans, pedibus ar- 

 genteo maculatis et cinctis, alis subfuscis, marginibus anticis 

 nigris. 



Body black : mouth full half the length of the body : feelers 

 shorter than the mouth : sides of the chest with silvery spots : legs 

 black, very long ; a silvery spot on each thigh, near the tip, which is 

 also silvery, as are those of the shanks and of the joints of the feet: 

 wings slightly tinged with brown ; their fore borders black ; veins 

 dark brown, thickly fringed with black hairs'; poisers dark brown. 

 Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



Culex annulatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 400, 2. Syst. And. 35, 4. 

 Vill. Ent. iii. 565. Gm'el. ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2287, 8. Turt. 

 Trans, iii. 663. Lam. Anim. sans Verteb. iii. 448, 2. Latr. 

 Hist. Nat. Cr. et Ins. xiv. 284, 3. Gen. Crust, iv. 246. 

 Meig. Dipt. i. 4, 2, t. 1,/. 10. Steph. Zool. Journ. i. 452, 1. 

 Zelt. Ins. Lapp. 806, 1. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. i. 35, 12. 

 Gim. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1845, iii. 287, 1. C. pipiens, 

 Sam. Ent. Comp. t, 9, f. 5. C. affinis, Steph. Zool. Journ. i. 

 452, 2. 



a. England. 



b. England. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



c. Nice. From Dr. Leach's collection. 



