CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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seen anything that would answer to this species, all specimens so named 
being only worn Culex pipiens L. 
19. Culex lutescens Fabr. 
Culex flavescens Yillers; Culex flavescens Fabr. 
Systema Entomol. etc. Flensburgi et Lipsiæ (1775) et Ent. Syst. Hafniæ (1792—94) 
Fabricius; Ex Faun. Fridr. (1709) Yillers; Syst. Anti. (1805) (= flavescens) 
Fabricius ; Rev. Sist. Del. Culicidæ Europee, p. 267 (1896) Ficalbi ; Syst. 
Beschr. Europ. Zweiflüg. Insekt. I. p. 81 (1818) Meigen; Syst. Nat. Y. 2888. 9. 
Gimmerthal; Ins. Brit. Dipt. III. 248 (1856) Walker; Faun. Austr. Die Flie¬ 
gen. I. Schiner. 
Head clothed with pale yellowish scales, palpi and proboscis black ; 
thorax clothed with dull pale yellow 7 scales, haying a slightly reddish- 
brown hue in the middle ; in certain lights the scales in the mid line 
seem paler, then showing tw 7 o dark (reddish-brown) lines ; pleuræ pale 
scaled. Abdomen covered with pale yellowish scales. Legs with most of 
femora yellowish, remainder black. 
2 . Head deep brown, clothed with large pale creamy yellow narrow- 
curved scales in front and with dense yellow upright forked ones behind ; 
palpi, clypeus and proboscis black ; antennæ deep brown, the basal and 
second segments with creamy scales, those on the basal segment forming 
a distinct pale spot. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with rather large pale yellow narrow- 
curved scales at the sides, front and behind, with thinner and more 
closely set reddish ones in the middle, the darker area having a median 
line of pale yellow 7 scales, easily seen under the 2 /s power, but not other 
wise, the thorax thus looks when held in certain lights as if it had tv 7 o 
rather darker broad median areas ; scutellum deep brown with large 
narrow-curved pale yellow scales, border-bristles and also those on the 
mesothorax golden-brown ; metánokon deep brown ; pleuræ deep brown, 
with flat creamy white scales, also the prothoracic lobes. 
Abdomen deep brown clothed with flat yellow scales, a few dusky 
ones in the middle of each segment ; basal segment with creamy white 
scales, apical segments paler than the preceeding ones ; border-bristles 
pale golden yellow ; venter densely clothed with pale creamy scales. 
Legs unbanded, coxæ brown with pale scales ; femora yellowish, 
dark towards the apex, tip white ; tibiæ with scattered pale and dark 
scales above, pale yellow and white scales below ; metatarsi black above, 
dull yellowish below r ; tarsi black ; ungues all equal, large, black and 
uniserrated. 
