CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUN GAETAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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mentation. Abdomen deep brown with scattered ochreous scales, most 
dense on the apical segments. Leg?, deep brown, unbanded, deep ochreous 
at the base. Wings with the first submarginal cell considerably longer 
than second posterior, its stem very short. 
2 • Head deep brown, with narrow-curved golden scales and with 
thin upright deep brown forked scales. Palpi deep brown ; proboscis deep 
brown at the apex with the basal half dull yellowish-brown to ochreous ; 
antennæ black, basal joint deep testaceous. 
Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved deep golden-brown scales, 
with two oblong areas just in front of the roots of the wings darker 
than the. rest, with very small narrow-curved scales, the scales in front 
of it somewhat paler than the rest, those in front of the scutellum also 
somewhat paler ; scutellum testaceous with narrow-curved pale scales and 
deep brown border-bristles ; metanotum bright brown ; pleuræ deep brown 
with some pale scaled areas. 
Abdomen black with blackish-brown scales and with yellow scaled 
basal bands on the second to fifth segments, the following with scattered 
yellow scales all over them; venter black with scattered yellow scales 
all over it. 
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Legs uniformly deep brown ; with a pale spot, almost white at the 
junction of the femora and tibiæ ; the coxæ deep testaceous ; fore and 
mid and hind ungues, equal and simple. 
Wings with the first submarginal cell very much longer and slightly 
narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem nearly one fifth the 
length of the cell ; its base much nearer the base of the wing than that 
of the second posterior cell ; stem of the second posterior cell rather 
more than half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein, about one 
and a half times its own length distant from the mid. Halteres pale 
ochreous. 
Length : 4*8 mm. 
Habitat : Sfax, Tunis (Brno, 1903). 
Observations : Described from a single $ . It comes very near Culex 
bicolor Meig., but is smaller and the whole abdomen is not densely 
ochreous scaled. It also answers to Ficalbi’s description of his Culex 
modestus but does not agree with the specimens described as modestus 
by Kertész and .which also agree with Ficalbi’s description. It differs 
from the latter in its- darker thorax and basal yellow abdominal banding 
and ochreous scaled apex and also in the fork-cells. The first submargi¬ 
nal being very long as in C. bicolor. It might even be a small variety 
of the latter. 
