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1. Theobaldia spathipalpis Rond. 
Culex spathipalpis Rond. 
Dipt. Ital. Prodro. I. (1886) Rondani ; Monogr. Culicid. I.'p. 339 (1901) Theobald. 
A cf and j from Attica. 
Also recorded from : Algeria, Teneriffe, Madeira, St. Michael, Crete, 
Cyprus, Cape Colony, Gibraltar, Italy and the larger Islands, India and 
Khartoum. 
2. Theobaldia aimulata Schrank. 
Culex annatatus Meig., Culex affinis Steph., Culex variegatus 
Schrank. 
Beiti, z. Naturgesch. 97. 70 (1776) Schrank; Zool. Journ. N. I. (= affinis) (1825) 
Stephens; Enum. Ins. Austr. 482. 983 (1781) (= variegatus) Schrank; Monogr. 
Culicid. I. 331. (1901) and III. 148 (1903) Theobald; Állattan. Közi. III. 60 
(1904) Kertész. 
Specimens from Hungary (vide : Kertész, p. 63). 
Also recorded from many other parts of Europe from Scandinavia to 
Italy, also from India and North America. 
Genus CULEX Linn. . 
Syst. Nat. (1735) Linnaeus; Monogr. Culicid. I. p. 326. (1901) Theobald. 
Several new species of this genus occur as the collection, including 
one from Europe identified b } 7 Kertész as Culex modestus Ficalbi. 
1. Culex Birói n. sp. 
(Plate I.) 
Proboscis with a median yellow band. Head with rather long pale 
scales. Thorax brown, unadorned, with narrow-curved golden scales. 
Abdomen brown, with basal pale bands and white lateral spots. Legs with 
narrow basal pale bands to the metatarsi, all the tarsi in the fore legs, 
all except the last in the mid with narrow basal pale bands ; two very 
faint ones behind. Wings with the fork-cells long, the stems very short. 
j . Head brown with rather long narrow pale creamy scales, dark 
brown upright forked scales and small flat creamy scales at the sides ; 
clypeus dark brown ; palpi black scaled ; proboscis deep brown with a 
yellow band towards the apical half ; antennæ deep brown. Thorax 
