NOCTUID^E CULICID/E. 309 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body, legs, and antennae, fawn-coloured, as are likewise the paler parts of the wings : primaries 

 clouded and streaked with dark, and reddish-brown ; the disk of these wings is occupied by a large 

 cloud of this colour inscribed with two, sometimes silvery, and sometimes golden, brilliant metallic 

 spots, tending to form an obtuse angle with each other : the upper one, or that nearest the base of 

 the wing being acuminated towards that part, rounded towards the apex, and sending forth two 

 branches towards the costal area : the lower spot is subtriangular or V-shaped, with the point towards 

 the base of the wings : the two together form, in some sort, a semicolon reversed : between the lower 

 or ovate spot and the costa, is a rather indistinct circlet of gold or silver, and two streaks of the 

 same lustre may be traced lower down between it and the inner margin of the wing; the disk near 

 the apex is bronzed ; from the brown cloud mentioned above runs a wavy brown streak to the exter- 

 nal apical angle, the apex itself is terminated by a band formed by indistinct black crescents ; and 

 above the streak is a transverse band formed by two faint lines of dark indistinct crescents including 

 a pale band : secondary wings darker at the apex. 



N. B. In the Nova Scotia specimens the discoidal spots are silvery, while in that from Canada 

 their lustre is golden. The synonymy of this species seems very doubtful : the metallic signature 

 can scarcely be said to represent either a mark of interrogation, or a greek Iota reversed : they most 

 resemble a semicolon. 



ORDER DIPTERA. Linn. 



I. NEMOCERA. Lat. 



Family CULICID^. Culicidans. 



CXCVI. Genus CULEX. Linn. 



(433) 1. * Culex Functor. Pungent Culex. 



C. I PunctorJ nigra ; pedibus, alarumque, albarum neuris, testaceis. 



Pungent Culex, black with the legs, and nervures of the white wings, testaceous. 



Length of the body 33- lines. 



Two specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 

 Body black. Proboscis longer than the trunk ; sheath black ; valvules and lancets testaceous : 

 palpi somewhat incrassated towards the apex ; antennae broken off in both specimens : wings white, 

 iridescent, with testaceous nervures, without scales, hairs, and fringe : legs testaceous. 



