Genus Culex. 
IP, 
57. Culex pulcripalpis. Rondani. 
(Specie Ital. d. Gen. Culex, Boll. Soc. Ent, Ital. (1872).) 
(Fig. 81, PI. XXI.) 
Thorax black, with dense narrow golden-brown curved 
scales, with two parallel lines of creamy-white scales of similar 
form meeting in front of the thorax and which are broadest on 
the anterior half. Abdomen dark brown to black, with basal 
creamy bands, which spread out in the middle, forming more or 
less a median pale line and also more or less apical pale bands, 
especially to the posterior segments. Last hind tarsus white ; 
fore and mid ungues of the 9 equal and toothed. 
9 . Head with creamy-yellow curved scales in the middle, 
golden-brown ones at the sides, and with numerous, creamy, 
upright forked ones behind, and a few upright black ones 
laterally, a small creamy tuft projecting between the eyes and 
a narrow pale border to them. Clypeus dark brown; palpi 
covered with deep purplish-black scales, with white scales at the 
apex; antennae brown, basal joint deep testaceous brown, with 
creamy-white scales, base of the second joint pale testaceous ; 
proboscis greyish-white in the middle, black scaled at the base 
and apex, and a few black scales scattered over the white band. 
Thorax black, covered with a thick felting of narrow, deep 
golden-brown curved scales, with two parallel lines of creamy- 
white scales of similar form, which meet round the front of the 
thorax, and which are broadest on the anterior half; scutellum 
brown, yellowish towards the base and on the lateral lobes, with 
golden-brown curved scales in the middle, white ones on the 
lateral lobes, mid lobe with a great number of bristles on the 
border, several rows deep; and also a thick tuft on the lateral 
lobes; metanotum olive brown; pleurae deep brown to purplish- 
black over the legs, with dense tufts of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep brown to black scales, each 
segment with a basal band of creamy-white scales, which 
expands centrally in some segments half across the segment, in 
others right across, thus forming more or less of a median creamy 
line; on some segments there are also narrow, apical, creamy 
scales forming more or less regular apical bands, which on the 
last two segments are very broad, each basal segment expands 
laterally into a pure-white lateral spot; venter covered with 
creamy-white scales, dark on the posterior borders. 
