CATALOGUE OP THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 87 
Abdomen dull brown with basal dull yellow bands, which spread 
out laterally ; in certain lights the abdomen looks dull ochreous. Legs 
brown, paler basally ; ungues of fore and mid legs uniserrated, hind 
equal and simple. 
Wings with typical Cui ex-scales ; the first submarginal cell a little 
longer and very slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 
slightly nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior ; 
its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell; stem of the second 
posterior also about two-thirds the length of the cell. ; posterior cross- 
vein rather more than its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 
Length: 4*3 mm. 
Habitat: Bombay (Biró, 1902). 
Observations: Described from a single perfect 5 . It can be told 
from all other species of Culex by the very marked thoracic ornamen¬ 
tation, which resembles that of a Corethra. 
15. Culex pullus n. sp. 
Head deep brown, with tawny brown scales ; palpi, proboscis and 
antennæ deep brown. Thorax deep brown densely clothed with reddish- 
brown scales. Abdomen deep brown with grey basal areas, the third and 
fourth segments with more or less triangular areas, the following with 
more or less complete bands. Legs brown unbanded. Wings of typical 
Culex- form. 
Ç'. Head (Fig. 6 ) clothed with very small narrow-curved pale golden 
scales in the middle and passing as a narrow area up to between the eyes ; 
on the sides and spreading someway on 
to the occiput and around the eyes are 
flat dull grey scales, somewhat irregularly 
disposed and a few black upright forked 
scales. Palpi small and thin, densly black 
scaled. Proboscis deep brown; clypeus 
brown; antennæ deep brown, basal joint 
testaceous. 
Abdomen deep brown, a few pale scales in the middle at the 
base of the second segment, the base of the third and fourth segments 
Avith grey triangular spots, the other segments with grey basal bands, 
venter yellowish. 
Legs uniformly brown with ochreous reflections, coxæ and venter 
of femora ochreous ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the fork-cells fairly long, the first submarginal Ion- 
Fig. 6. Culex pullus n. sp. Ç . — 
Cephalic ornamentation. 
