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abdomen is pale yellow, with a median dark line and small dark lateral 
spots on each side. Legs with yellow-scaled coxae, femora yellow with 
mottlings of dark brown and a dark distal ring, knee spot white; tibiae 
brown with a dark distal ring, followed by a white one; tarsi brown with 
a yellowish sheen, apically and basally pale banded; female ungues equal 
and underrated ; in the cf the first and second pair are unequal, the mid 
ones particularly so, the larger one in both with twrn teeth, the smaller and 
the equal hind pair underrated. 
“Fiealbi also figures the <? genitalia (Fig. 157). 
Length .—5 to 9 mm. 
Eabitat. —Italy.” 
Observations .—Fiealbi gives a detailed description of this 
species in his paper “ Venti Specie Zanzare ( Culicidae ) Italiane,” 
p. 112. It is closely allied to- C. dorsalis , Mg,, G. jpulcritarsis, 
and C. joulcripalpis of Rondani, but is clearly distinct. 
60. CuLEX GELIDUS. 11 . sp. 
(Fig. 93, PI. XXIV.) 
Thorax dusky yellowish-brown to brown, with the front 
two-thirds covered with frosty-white curved scales, the hind 
portion w r ith almost black scales and long dark bristles. 
Abdomen brown with basal creamy-white bands and pale lateral 
spots. Ungues of the 9 equal and simple. 
9 • Head with frosty-white curved scales in front, and 
upright white ones at the back, sides clothed with ochraceous 
scales, with apparently two yellow bristles at the edge projecting 
forwards from the middle ; eyes dark purple; palpi with black 
scales, slightly ochraceous towards the base on the inner side ; 
proboscis yellowish, with a broad dark 
band towards the apex, extreme apex 
pale, and a few r brown scales on the 
basal half making it look slightly darker ; 
antennae yellowish-brown, with pale 
bands, pubescence and verticillate h,airs 
brown; basal joint dark, base of second 
joint pale testaceous, which colour also 
shows in the hollow of the basal joint. 
Thorax yellowish-brown, covered with 
frosty-white curved scales for about two-thirds of the length of 
the mesonotum, the hinder part of the mesonotum with scattered 
deep black curved scales, and four dorsal rows of (as wmll as 
Eig. 158. 
Culex gelidus. n. sp. 
Side view of thorax and hind 
tarsi. 
