CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
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I first rediscovered this small Culex, which closely resembles a small 
C. pimem in a water butt in my garden. It has since been found in Crete 
and in North America. 
22. Cuiex pipiens Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Ed. X. 602. 1 (1758) Linnaeus; Monogr. Culicid. II. 132 (1901) Theobald; 
Állattan. Közi. III. 66 (1904) Kertész. 
Specimens from various parts of Hungary. Vide : Kertész for full 
synonymy and localities. 
Also recorded from most countries in Europe, from Malta, Cyprus, 
North America, Algeria, Suez, Palestine, Madeira and Teneriffe. 
Genus LOPHOCEEATOMYIA nov. gen. 
(Plates I and III). 
Head clothed with small narrow-curved scales, upright forked scales 
and very small flat ones laterally ; thorax with narrow-curved scales, also 
the scutellum. Wing scales broad and short, especially on the first and 
the second long-veins, more elongated on the third and fourth, the lateral 
ones of the fifth long and thin; $ palpi short, 3-jointed, but with traces 
of one notche near the base, apical joint as long as the rest of the palp, 
pointed; antennæ of the ç normal. The cf palpi (Fig. la. et 9a.) long, 
longer or shorter than proboscis, acuminate, 3-jointed, the two apical 
joints equal, or nearly equal, a characteristic process at the base (Fig. lb.). 
Male antennæ with striking peculiarities, the sixth segment with a large 
tuft of long narrow flat plates on the outer side, the seventh and eighth 
with small tufts on the inner side, the ninth with a long hook-like pro¬ 
cess, the next two segments with the inner verticillate hairs partly dar¬ 
kened and denser than the rest, at the junction of the verticilate hairs 
at tenth, eleventh and thirteenth segments are two small curved pecti¬ 
nated processes, they are present on all the other segments, but are not 
so pronounced (fraudatrix). These organs vary in the different species. 
This genus is very distinct especially the male, owing to the strange 
antennal processes. The wing scales and palpi of the female will at once 
separate them from Culex w r hich they resemble at first sight. What the 
function of the extraordinary male antennal processes is I have not the least 
idea. Two* species occur in this genus, both from the some collector (Biró). 
* A third species has,recently been sent me by Mi* E. Green from Ceylon. 
It was described in a paper New Culicidse from Ceylon, read at the Entomological 
Society of London, but was not considered by that august body of sufficient value 
to publish in^their transactions ! 
