Genus Culex. 
9 1 
£. Antennae banded black and dull brown, the plumes 
bright deep brown; proboscis long, black, labella distinct; palpi 
deep blackish-brown, the basal joint small, reddish-brown, 
penultimate joint rather swollen, also the apex of the ante¬ 
penultimate, densely plumose, hair-tufts deep brown; palpi not 
quite as long as the proboscis. 
Abdomen long and narrow, with basal white bands, which 
expand a little laterally, not so deep coloured as in the 9 i geni¬ 
talia large, dark, and hairy; claspers black, twisted at the end ; 
dense pale pubescence at the sides. 
Wings with the fork-cells very small, 
the first sub-marginal cell much narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base 
nearer the apex of the wing, and its stem 
about one and a half times its length ; 
stem of the second posterior cell shorter 
than the stem of the former; posterior 
cross-vein about its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. Ungues of the 
fore and mid legs unequal, both apparently 
uniserrated. I cannot see the tooth in 
the smaller distinctly. 
Length. —6 mm. 
Habitat. —New Forest, Hampshire. 
Time of capture. —June (June 2,1899). 
Observations. —Described from a £ 
and 9 sent me by Mr. Bradley. The 9 
approaches most closely the 9 °f Zetter- 
stedt’s G. nigripes , but differs from all 
those I have seen in having the posterior 
cross-vein nearly level with the mid cross¬ 
vein, and not distant from it as in C. nigripes; moreover, the 
thorax is more distinctly ornamented, and the venter of the 
femora is much whiter than in the Arctic specimens; but, in 
spite of these differences, I think it can only be considered a 
variety of the northern form. It will be noticed that the 
relative positions of the cross-veins differ in the $ and 9 • 
I have not been able to examine a flattened wing of the 9 > 
so the nearness of the posterior cross-vein to the mid may be 
only apparent. 
Fig'. 195. 
Culex nigripes , var. sylvae. 
a, Male palpus ; b, genitalia. 
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