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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Observations .—I have not met with this species. It is 
evidently very distinct, the white wing fringe being different to 
anything I have met with in the Culicidae , except in the former 
species, in which the fringe is very pale, one might almost say 
white, at the base. The $ only has been described. I know of 
no record since Loew described it, from which description this 
is compiled. 
56. Culex pulcritarsis. Rondani. 
(Sp. Ital. Culex, Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. (1872), Rondani; Venti Sp. Z inzare 
Ital. p. 133 (1899), Ficalbi.) 
“Head brown; palpi of ? brown, the small fourth joint brownish- 
black with a white apex ; in the 6 longer than the proboscis, slightly 
clubbed, brown, with pale rings at the base of the last three joints, hair 
tufts maroon-brown, pale at their apices. Antennae of the ? brownish- 
black, in the cT with maroon-brown plumes, with pale reflections, basal 
joint with white scales; a white border round the eyes. Thorax with 
brassy or golden tomentum, no special ornamentation; pleurae speckled 
white. Abdomen chocolate-brown, with straw-coloured basal bands, 
narrow in the middle, but expanding laterally with triangular spots with 
the apex behind ; venter whitish. Legs with the coxae yellowish-brown, 
with white scales; femora yellowish-white, except at the apex and base, 
where they are dark-brown, with whitish specks at the base; tibiae 
brownish-black, except a narrow yellowish-white ring at the apex, which 
unites with the basal ring of the first tarsal joint (= metatarsus); tarsi 
brownish-black, with broad pale rings involving both sides of the joints, 
last joint entirely light coloured ; ungues of the ? equal, the fore and mid 
uniserrated, hind simple; in the $ the fore and probably the mid ungues 
are unequal, the larger claw with two and the smaller with one tooth; 
the hind ones are small, equal and simple. Wings with pale specks. 
Length. —7 to 8 mm.” 
Habitat. —Italy (Rondani and Ficalbi). 
Observations. —I have not seen this species, but it has been 
recently described by Ficalbi, who has also examined Rondani’s 
type. The above short account is taken from Ficalbi’s description 
(Venti Sp. Zan. Ital. p. 133). It seems very closely related to 
the three following species. 
