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Observations. —Very distinct species, easily told by the pallid 
posterior portion to the thorax, with the strongly contrasted 
black bristles in two rows, one on each side of the pale space in 
front of the scutellum, with its small dark bristles and pallid 
scales. The legs look long and thin. 
104. Culex rusticus. Rossi (1790). 
C. punctatus. Meigen (1818). 
C. quadrimaculatus. Macquart (1834). 
C. pungens. Rob. Desvoidy (1827). 
(Fn. Etrusca, tom. sec. Libarni. (1790), Rossi; Syst. Besch. Euro. Zvveiflug. i. 
(1818) (= punctatus), Meigen; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. (1896) (= quadri¬ 
maculatus) ; Revis. Sist. d. fam. del Culicidae Europ. p. 272, Ficalbi 
(1896).) 
“ Greyish, the abdomen with black spots. Antennae fuscous, with 
scanty verticillate hairs; proboscis black. Thorax greyish; all the 
abdominal segments with black spots. Legs fuscous; posterior very 
long ; femora paler, but the apex black. Wings dusky, with the internal 
margin ciliated and the veins scaled, &c. 
Length .—3 5 lines (Rossi).” 
Meigen describes C. punctatus as follows :— 
“Abdomen ashy-grey, with two rows of black spots, triangular in 
form ; thorax brownish-grey, with four dark lines ; antennae and palpi of 
the s dark brown; proboscis brown, &c. 
Length — 4 lines.” 
Macquart describes C. quadrimaculatus as :— 
“ Thorax black, with greyish-yellow tomentum, and with the 
abdomen with quadrangular black spots, &c. 
Lxngth. —3^ lines.” 
Note. —There is no doubt that these three are synonymous. 
C. rusticus was described from Tuscany, C. punctatus from 
Solingen in the Hertzberg, C. quadrimaculatus from France. 
There is a specimen named C. rusticus , Rossi, in the old British 
Museum collection, but it is certainly not that species, for the 
abdomen has basal dull white bands. Verrall records Culex 
punctatus in his list of British species, but on what authority I 
do not know. I have not met with it in any collection. 
Stephens also records it from England, and Gimmerthal from 
Russia. It seems to be a marsh species.—(F. Y. T.) 
