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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
111. Culex pipiens. Linnaeus (1758). 
G. vulgaiis. Linnaeus (1767). 
C. aljpinus. Linnaeus (1767). 
G. agilis. Bigot. 
G. ciliaris. Linnaeus (1767). 
G. communis. De Geer. 
G. rufus. Meigen (1818). 
G. phytopJiagus. Ficalbi (1889). 
(?) G. domesticus. Germar (1817). 
(Fn. Suec. (1890), Linn.; Sp. Ins. ii. 469, 1; etEnt. Syst. vi. 400, 1 ; et Syst. 
Anti. 33, 1, Fabr.; Ins. Austr. 481,980 ; et Fn. Boica. iii. 2585, Schrank; 
Klass. i. 5, 9; et Syst. Besclir. i. 7, 10, Meigen; Gen. Crust, iv. 246, 
Latr.; Dipt. n. d. Fr. 161, 4 ; et Suit. i. 34, 4, Macq.; Ins. Lapp. 807, 4 ; 
et Dipt. Scand. ix. 3455, Zett.; Fn. Austr. ii. 628, Schiner; Dipt. Neer. 
328, V, d. Wulp; Yenti Sp. Zan. Ital. 159, Ficalbi; Syst. Nat. xii. 
1002,2, Linn. (= ciliaris) ; Ins. Austr. 481, 981, Sclirank; Ins. Lapp. 
807, 5 ; Dipt. Scand. ix. 3456, 2, Zett. (= ciliaris') ; Fn. Austr. ii. 628, 1, 
Schiner (= ciliaris)'. Dipt. Neer. 329, Y. d. Wulp (= ciliaris) ; Ins. 
Brit. Dipt. iii. 247, Walker (— ciliaris ); Ins. vi. 316, 1, De Geer 
(= communis); Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 122, Bigot (= agilis); Syst. 
Besclir. i. 7, Meigen (= rufus); Rev. Sist. d. Culicidae Europeae, p. 276, 
Ficalbi (= phytophagus) ; Reise nacli Dalmatien, &c., Germar (1817); 
Syst. Beschr. i. 8 Meigen (= domesticus).) 
(Fig. 113, PL XXIX.) 
Thorax dark brown, with golden-brown curved scales and 
three rows of black bristles. Abdomen covered with dusky-brown 
scales and with basal flaxen bands, broadest in the middle, and 
which broaden out laterally to form spots; venter pale yellow 
scaled. Legs unbanded, brown, with an ochraceous lustre; 
coxae yellowish-brown, femora pale beneath, knee spot white, 
tarsi dark brown. First sub-marginal cell very long and narrow, 
its stem very short. Ungues of the 9 equal, simple; the fore 
and mid ungues unequal, both toothed, the hind equal, simple. 
$ . Head clothed with curved golden-brown scales in front 
and in the middle, and with numerous dark brown forked 
upright ones, the sides of the head covered with creamy-white 
flat scales ; antennae dark brown, with pale pubescence and 
dark verticils, basal joint and base of the second joint dark 
testaceous; palpi thick, brown, with some greyish scales; 
proboscis ochraceous-brown in the middle, black towards the apex 
and towards the base, extreme tip ochraceous, ventral surface 
