INSECTS. DIPTERA. 102. Culex. 
663 
Black ; wings white with a black rib and tranrverfe fpot in 
the middle. 
Inhabits Germany 5 fize of T. lagubris. 
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Black; thorax grey: fecond fegment of the abdomen with 
a common cinereous band behind, 4, 5, 6. cinereous 
each fide : wings ferruginous. 
Inhabits out of Europe. Mu/. Lesi, p. 133. ». lyj. 
'''/»/ . Downy ; eyes with 4 bands : abdomen with a black belt 
(hanks white. 
Inhabits Europe. Scbranck. Inf, Aust. p, 480. ». 977. 
K.:.- 
'"'•tinus. Cinereous ; wings hyaline with a black margin and broad 
band. 
Inhabits Europe, Schranck. Inf. Auft. p, 480. n. 979. 
102, CULEX. Mjouth with a fingle-valved 
exlerted dexile iheath iiiclofing 5 briltles; 
feelers .2, of 3 articvdations; ante^ince 
approximate, filiform. Gnat. 
Thefe like the former infefts, live by fucking out the blood and 
juices of the larger animals, and are eagerly fought after by 
poultry and fparrows : the lar’va refides in flagnant waters 
and has a fmall cylindrical refpiratory tube near the tail, the 
head is armed with hooks to feize on the aquatic infedls upon 
which it feeds ; the pupa is incurved and ovate with refpiratorv 
tubes near the head. 
Cinereous with 8 brown rings on the abdomen. 
Reaum, Inf. '^.tab- 43. 44- Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 15. 
S’v.'ttmmerdatn. Bib. Nat. tab. 4 — I — 5. 
Inhabits Europe, and is every where known by its Ihrill buzzing 
noife and fevere punfture. It is faid foraetimcs to fhine by 
night. 
In the favannas of warmer climates a much larger fpecies Is 
found, known by the name of the Mufpueto fly, which inflifts 
to fevere a wound, that the inhabitants are obliged to fleep 
under thin gauze nets. 
Antennae of the male peftinate or feathered. 
Brown, abdomen and legs 
fpolted with brown. 
annulate with white: wings 
Inhabits. 
