Genus Culex. 
93 
Walker describes the 9 only, as follows :— 
“ Fusca; proboscis fulva, apice fusca; antennae nigrae basi fulvae; 
pectus fulvum; abdomen fasciis albido-testaceis; coxae et femora testacea; 
alae subcinereae, venis fuscis subciliatus basi testaceis; halteres testacei. 
“ Brown; proboscis slender, straight, tawny, brown at the tip. 
Antennae black, shorter than the proboscis, tawny at the base; pectus 
tawny. Abdomen darker than the thorax, with a whitish testaceous 
band in front of each segment. Legs brown, coxae and femora 
testaceous. Wings greyish, veins brown, slightly ciliated, testaceous at 
the base. Halteres testaceous. 
Length of body, 3£ lines.—Yan Dieman’s Land.” 
Note. —Walker’s type is in the old collection, but in poor 
condition. The bases of the fork-cells are nearly level, not widely 
separate as in C. pervigilans , both very large, their stems short, 
and the posterior cross-vein rather more than its own length 
distant behind the mid cross-vein. 
93. Culex nigripes. Zetterstedt. 
C. impiger. Walker. 
C. implacabilis. Walker. 
C. incidens. Thomson (?). 
(Ins. Lapp. (183S-40), Zetterstedt; Bull.Soc. Ent. Ital. p. 292 (1896), Ficalbi ; 
Brit. Mus. List, p. 7, Walker (= impiger); Eugen. Resa. Dipt, p.443 
(= incidens), Thomson.) 
Thorax black, with ferruginous scales and black bristles in 
front, and brown ones projecting over the roots of the wings. 
Abdomen black, with deep fuscous scales and basal white bands, 
which spread out laterally on the last few segments. Legs 
black, coxae dark, femora pale beneath ; fore and mid ungues of 
2 equal, uniserrated. 
9 . Head dark brown, with deep golden-brown curved scales 
and upright forked ones, and a small patch of pale scales on each 
side, a tuft of brown bristles projecting forwards ; palpi and 
proboscis black, palpi with paler scales on the last joint, which 
is broad and flat ; antennae black, basal joint with dull ochra- 
ceous scales ; proboscis long. 
Thorax black, with scattered, curved, hair-like, ferruginous to 
golden-brown scales, paler towards the scutellum, with numerous 
black bristles projecting forwards and brown ones over the 
roots of the wings ; scutellum black, with pale ferruginous curved 
scales and deep brown border-bristles; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae black, with cinereous and white scales. 
