Genus Culex. 9 9 
In some specimens the legs are paler brown than in others, and 
there is a pale knee spot on the hind legs in one of the series. 
Wings with long brown scales, testaceous at the root, rather 
more densely scaled than usual in the genus Culex; first sub¬ 
marginal cell very little longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem slightly shorter than the fork ; the base of 
the second posterior cell a little nearer the base of the wing than 
that of the first sub-marginal cell, its stem a little shorter than 
the cell; posterior cross-vein more than its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein, the latter longer than the supernumerary 
cross-vein. Halteres ochraceous. 
Length .—3 to 3*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Woodstock, Virginia, U.S.A. (F. C. Pratt). 
Time of capture. —June. 
Observations .—Professor Howard kindly sent four of this 
species from the United States National Museum. It is a small 
gnat, quite distinct from any I have seen outside the American 
Continent, and may at once be told by its compactness, its banded 
abdomen, and the wing venation and densely scaled wings. 
They were sent by him under the name G. pungens, Wied., but 
they do not answer at all to the short description of that species, 
nor do they agree with either Howard’s or Coquillett’s specimens, 
for in both Howard’s figure of C. pungens and Coquillett’s table 
of North American species we find the 9 has simple, not uni- 
serrated ungues. . I can find no species described answering to 
those sent by Professor Howard. 
95. Culex Spencerii. n. sp. 
(Fig. 104, PL XXVI.) 
Thorax black, with narrow golden curved scales in the 
middle, the sides with broader, creamy-coloured ones, and two 
short, parallel, paler lines behind and more pale ones in front of 
the scutellum. Abdomen covered with creamy and white scales, 
with large, black-scaled patches on each side of the middle line. 
Legs brown, pale scales scattered about on the tibiae and 
metatarsi; femora mostly pale ochraceous, with a few black 
scales; ungues uniserrated. 
9 . Head brown, with pale golden curved scales and 
yellowish upright forked ones; a pale border round the eyes, 
small, flat, creamy scales at the sides, and then flat dark ones; 
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