Genus Culex. 
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Culex rubidus. R. Desvoidy. 
(Essai sur les Culicid. p. 401.) 
“Antennae brownish; proboscis yellowish with brown apex; palpi 
yellowish-brown; thorax reddish with a black dorsal line; abdomen 
brownish, with triangular yellowish lateral spots; wings brownish-yellow 
with villous veins; hind tarsi with white cilia. Length 4| lines ( ? ). 
Habitat. —Carolina.” 
Note. —I have seen nothing answering to this, and Coquillett 
does not mention it. 
Culex meridionalis. Leach (1825). 
(Zool. Journ. N. vii. Oct. 1825.) 
“ Head and thorax reddish-brown; legs greyish-brown ; abdomen 
dorsally reddish-brown with lighter bands on the dorsum of each segment 
behind. 
Length .—5 mm. 
Habitat .—N ice.” 
Note. —Described by Leach in his paper “ Description of 
thirteen species of Formica and three Culex , <fcc.” (Z. J. vii. 1825). 
It is said by Leach to be common in Nice. It is probably only 
Culex pipiens. 
Culex pallipes. Macquart (1838). 
C. melanorliinus. Giles (1900). 
(Dipt. Exoti. p. 33, Macq.; Gnats or Mosq. p. 342, Giles (= melanorliinus).') 
“ Fuscous; thorax with rufous scales; the sides and pectus pale ; 
wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer than the second posterior; 
proboscis black; abdomen brown, pale yellow ventraliy; fore coxae and 
femora pale yellow; tibiae and tarsi brown ; wings rather yellowish. 
Length. —If lines. 
Habitat. —Egypt.” 
Note. —I have been unable to trace this species. It has 
not occurred amongst the few Egyptian mosquitoes I have yet 
seen. Lieut.-Col. Giles renames it Culex melanorliinus , as the 
name pallipes had been used by Meigen previously. 
