Genus Culex. 
75 
Habitat .—England (Tunbridge Wells, Kent). 
Time of capture. —June. 
Observations .—Described from specimens in Mr. Verrall’s 
collection. A large handsome species, easily identified by the 
thoracic ornamentation and abdominal banding. 
It probably bears some resemblance to Ficalbi’s Gut ex 
impudicus , but can at once be told by the 9 ungues being 
uniserrated and large. 
86. Culex punctor. Kirby. 
(Fauna Boreali-Americana, Ins. p. 309.) 
Thorax deep brown, covered laterally with narrow creamy 
scales, which form a line on each side passing back to the 
scutellum, the middle of the mesonotum with deep chestnut- 
brown scales, with a median double line of pale scales which 
spreads out in front of the scutellum to form a pale patch. 
Abdomen blackish-brown, with basal pale bands which spread 
out laterally. Legs brown; the coxae with brown and white 
scales. Ungues of the £ unequal, the larger toothed, the 
smaller simple (?) ; hind ones equal and simple; in the $ equal, 
uniserrated. 
£. Head dark brown, with narrow curved creamy scales, 
flat narrow pale ones at the sides and numerous creamy 
upright forked ones ; antennae brown, with deep bright brown 
plumes ; proboscis brown ; palpi dark brown, with rather deep 
flaxen-brown hair-tufts; the two last joints nearly equal, the 
antepenultimate longer, nearly as long as the last two put 
together. 
Thorax deep brown, covered at the sides with narrow 
creamy curved scales, which form a line on each side passing 
back to the scutellum; between these two lines the mesonotum 
is covered with deep bright chestnut-brown, narrow curved 
scales, there being a narrow median double line of pale scales 
in the middle separated by a distinct dark bare line; the pale 
scales of the median lines spread out round the bare patch in 
front of the scutellum and form a pale patch ; there are three 
rows of dark bristles which become paler posteriorly ; the sides 
of the mesonotum are deep black, with scanty creamy scales ; 
scutellum deep brown, with pale creamy scales and pale brown 
border-bristles; metanotum deep brown; pleurae black, with a 
