Genus Culecc . 
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Time of appearance. —Summer. 
Observations .—I have not seen this species. Ficalbi seems to 
think it may be identical with Zetterstedt’s Culex fusculus. 
Lt.-Col. Giles says: “the differences, if any, seem too small 
to warrant the establishment of the separate species.” 
Fig. 211. 
Male and female ungues of 
Culex modestus (after Ficalbi). 
According to Ficalbi the female bites very severely at night, 
and is very noisy in the marshes at Ravenna in summer time. 
This applies to the species I have taken to be Zetterstedt’s 
C. fusculus , found in England at Wicken Fen, but the thorax is 
bright ferruginous, and not dark brown, as Ficalbi states is the 
case in his C. modestus. The figures here reproduced are from 
Ficalbi’s recent work, which includes the description of the £ 
(Figs. 211 and 212). 
108. Culex viroultus. n. sp. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with small curved golden- 
brown scales and two short single rows of bristles, a pair of 
bristles before the last one on each side. Abdomen dusky 
brown, a broad band of white scales at the base of each seg¬ 
ment, which on the last few segments form lateral borders. 
Legs with deep ochraceous-brown scales, darker on the tibiae 
and tarsi, a yellow spot at the apex of the tibiae. Ungues of 
the fore and mid legs unequal, uniserrated ; of the hind legs 
equal and simple. 
