Genus Culex. 
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nearly half the length of the cell; second posterior cell expanding 
towards the wing border, its stem about as long as the cell; 
posterior cross-vein more than its own length distant from the 
mid cross-vein. 
Length. —3-5 mm. 
Habitat. —Taipang, Perak (Wray) (22. 11. and 21. 12. 99); 
and Quilon, Travancore (James). 
Observations .—The two specimens from which the above 
description was drawn resemble the type in so many respects 
that I cannot look upon them as otherwise than a variety of this 
species. The difference in the relative length of the cross-veins 
and fork-cells having proved variable in certain species (i.e. 
C. pipiens, L., &c.), little importance need be paid to that difference 
seen between the type and the variety in this Asiatic species. 
61. C. tarsalis. Coquillett. 
(Canadian Ent. xxviii. p. 44.) 
Habitat .—Argus Mountains (California). 
“ Thorax black, marked with a dorsal grey vitta, its tomentum yellowish, 
except a white sub-dorsal undulating line on either side, a spot in front of 
the scutellum above the root of each wing and on the pleura. Abdomen 
black, a fascia of white tomentum at the base of each segment, and at the 
apices of the last three. Both ends of tarsal joints broadly white ; fore and 
mid claws bearing a tooth, hind simple in the 6 , in the ? unserrated.” 
Length, 4 * 50 mm. 
BANDED-LEGGED SPECIES, UNIDENTIFIABLE EXCEPT FROM 
THE TYPES. 
Culex Caspius. Pallas. 
C. parvus. Macquart (?). 
(Reisen durch das Russisch. Reich. Pallas; Nou. Suit, a Buffon, Plist. Nat. 
d. Ins. Dip. t. i. (1834), Macquart.) 
“ Like C. pipiens , but a little smaller, with the same buzz and ferocity ; 
greyish; the thorax with cinereous stripes; tarsi indistinctly banded; 
covered with short pubescence, the wings also with delicate fringes on the 
veins and margin. Antennae filiform in both sexes; proboscis longer 
than thorax, its sheath snowy white; palpi very short, scarcely as long as 
the head, thick. 
Habitat .—Marshes near the Caspian Sea; treacherous, very common 
and numerous.” 
