Genus Culex. 
1G7 
are in very bad condition, but I have been able to make out a 
few additional characters, which I append with Macquart’s 
original description. 
The probability is that the specimens I have seen in Bigot’s 
collection are either Macquart’s types or certainly the same lot 
as those from which Macquart drew up the short description. 
It is certainly distinct from G. pipiens, Linn., approaching more 
nearly C. fatigans , but, judging from its general thick appearance 
and the closeness of the posterior cross-vein to the mid cross-vein, 
distinct. I have seen no recent specimens. The only Egyptian 
species I have seen have been Dr. Keatinge’s new Anopheles 
[A. Pharoensis), Culex pipiens and a Culex fatigans. 
123. Culex fuscanus. Wiedemann. 
(Dipt. Exot. p. 9, Wied.; Proc. Linn. Soc. i. pp. 4 and 105 (1857), Walker.) 
“Dusky; thorax faintly banded; abdomen banded grey. Length, 
3£ lines, and $ . Thorax dusky, with grey hairs (scales?), arranged 
in such a way that the ground colour appears as four linear stripes, or at 
least shows so in somewhat rubbed specimens; abdomen the same tint 
as the thorax, each segment with a grey apical band. Antennae dusky, 
palpi yellowish beneath, fuscous, with two white spots. Wings yellowish 
at the costa. Legs yellowish-fuscous. 
Habitat .—Easl India ; Malacca, Singapore, Sarawak (Wallace).” 
Note.—I have not been able to identify this species satis¬ 
factorily. There are three specimens so named in the old 
British Museum collection, but obviously incorrectly. 
124. Culex bicolor. Meigen. 
C. marginalis. Stephens (?). 
(Syst. Beschr. 1 (1818).) 
“ Thorax with dorsum grey, with traces of darker longitudinal lines ; 
pleurae speckled yellow. Abdomen dirty yellow, coxae yellow, tibiae 
darker yellow, tarsi brown ; palpi and antennae yellowish-brown. 
Jjength. —7-8 mm.” 
A doubtful species, said to be somewhat less yellow than the 
following, and possibly described from an old specimen of the 
latter, although it is recorded by both Schiner from Austria and 
Dimmerthal from Russia and Stephens from England. Walker 
suggests it may be lutescens. All specimens I have seen so 
named have been worn G. pipiens, L. 
