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Abdomen narrow, the lateral patches of pale scales are small, 
the edges and bases of the segments partly nude and very pale, 
giving the abdomen a quasi-banded appearance; there are also 
a few white basal scales on some segments; claspers brown, 
terminal joints very pale; ungues of the fore and mid legs 
unequal, both with a single tooth, that on the smaller claw 
minute and pointed, the tooth being nearly straight, hind ungues 
both very small, equal and simple. 
Length. —4 * 8 to 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Grenada, West Indies (W. E. Broadway, February 
14, 1900, and 63) ; St. Vincent, Cumberland Bay, and Richmond 
Estate Works (H. Powell, No. Ill, June 10, 1899) ; St. Lucia 
(O. Galgey, December 21, 1899). 
Time of capture. —May (May 16, 1899), St. Vincent; Feb¬ 
ruary and March, in Grenada. 
Observations. —This is a very easily recognised species, by the 
deep chestnut-brown thorax, dark abdomen, with white lateral 
patches, and very pale pleurae and bases to the legs. 
It is evidently a very abundant West Indian species a large 
series being sent from St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada. 
The Grenada species were taken on the Ballast Ground and in 
the Botanic Station. The ciliate hind tibio-metatarsal joint also 
seems characteristic. I cannot satisfactorily identify it with any 
described species. 
107. Culex modestus. Ficalbi. 
(Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxi. 1889; Rev. Sist. d. fam. d. Culicidae Europ. 
p. 269 (1896); Vent. Sp. Zan. Ital. p. 163 (1899).) 
Bead with nape dark brown, proboscis and palpi black; antennae with 
basal joint yellowish speckled with black, remainder black. Thorax dark 
brown, especially in front, yellowish behind; scutellum dusky-yellow; 
pleurae yellowish. Abdomen dark brown dorsally with scanty yellowish 
speckling, yellow spots at the sides; venter yellowish, a small black spot 
at the base of the last segment; short fine yellow hairs laterally. 
Legs with the coxae yellowish with blackish scales; femora black 
above, yellow beneath, apex white, especially on hind legs; tibiae and 
tarsi black. 
Wings blackish-brown; fork-cells with the branches longer than their 
stems; stem of the first sub-marginal shorter than that of the second 
posterior cell. 
Length. —6 to 7 mm. (including proboscis). 
Habitat. —Marshes near Ravenna, Italy. 
