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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Observations .—The type was in the Jardin des Plantes, hut 
has decayed away. I have only seen one poor specimen. 
The species much resembles C. lateralis , but the basal 
abdominal bands should at once separate it. 
I do not think Ficalbi’s description applies to Meigen’s Calex 
ornatus. I have been unable to examine this species, so 
reproduce Ficalbi’s figures of the $ and 9 ungues of the species 
he calls ornatus , which apparently has an unadorned thorax. 
Habitat .—Germany (Meigen) ; Scandinavia (Zetterstedt) ; 
Holland (Van der Wulp); Austria (Schiner) ; Russia (Gimmer- 
thal); England (Stephens, Verrall, &c.). 
88. Culex consobrinus. R. Desvoidy. 
C. inornatus. Williston. 
C. pinguis. Walker (?). 
C. impatiens. Walker (?). 
(List, Brit. Mils. Dipt. p. 5, Walker (= impatiens); North American Fauna, 
Washington Gov. Press(1893), Williston (= inornatus)', Science Gossip, 
pp. 79-81 (1867), Walker (?) (= pinguis).) 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, darkened towards the sides, 
and a narrow dusky central line, with scattered golden curved 
scales. Abdomen brown, with dusky-brown scales, with basal 
dull white bands and white scales at the sides. 
9 . Head dark brown, depressed in the middle line, covered 
vdth creamy curved scales and with ochraceous upright forked 
ones behind, black bristles, and a few yellowish ones projecting 
forwards between the eyes; eyes dark, with a dull silvery tinge, 
and bordered with a narrow line of pale scales ; antennae brown, 
with brown pubescence, basal joint and base of the second joint 
bright testaceous, with a few pale scales; clypeus brown; face 
pale testaceous; palpi testaceous, covered with dark brown 
scales, with a few pale ones on the inside; proboscis very long, 
brown. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, darker towards the sides, and 
with a narrow slightly dusky central line seen in denuded 
specimens; thorax covered with scattered golden curved scales; 
scutellum with pale curved scales and dark border-bristles; 
metanotum bright chestnut-brown with a dark central line; 
pleurae bright brown with scattered pale scales. 
Abdomen (partly denuded) brown, covered with dusky brown 
