354 
A Monograph of Culicidae. 
some darker than others, with many narrow brown curved scales * 
along the eyes there are black bristles projecting forward and 
two marked tufts spreading on the clypeus. Antennae pale in 
centre and darker at all joints. Palpi dark brown with a small 
white apical spot, proboscis and clypeus are both dark brown. 
Thorax : prothoracic lobes simple with a few dark bristles. 
Dorsum of thorax is straw-coloured, covered with brown curved 
scales. There are black bristles at the sides; scutellum is dark 
with a few narrow curved scales on each lobe. There are seven 
to nine bristles on the mid lobe and four on each lateral lobe ; 
metanotum is brown. 
Abdomen : apical black bands consisting of brown broad tile¬ 
like scales. Each segment has a large number of brown bristles 
at the sides and on the dorsum. There are cream-coloured tile¬ 
like scales on the central surface. 
Legs, coxae brown, femora brown but not densely scaled, pale 
at the tibio-femoral joint, tibiae brown with well-marked pale 
band at the tibio-metatarsal joint. Metatarsi densely scaled 
with a band at both ends. Tarsi are densely scaled with pale 
bands at all the joints. Pore ungues unequal and uniserrated. 
Wing : veins have brown scales. Costal, sub-costal and first 
longitudinal are darker than the remainder. First sub-marginal 
cell is nearly twice as long as the second posterior cell. 
£. Head dark brown with many almost black upright 
forked scales. The upright forked scales cease at the vertex and 
are replaced by brown curved scales. Antennae dark and light 
with many dark, long plumes, proboscis is dark brown. Palpi 
are brown with a pale band about the centre of the second joint; 
there is also a pale area at the basal joint. The hair-tufts are 
brown. 
Thorax : scale ornamentation is the same as in the female, 
scutellum is brown with a variable number of bristles. 
Abdomen is banded the same as in the female. Male geni¬ 
talia, basal lobes narrow, covered with dark hairs, apical segment 
thin and somewhat club-shaped. The wings are paler than those 
of the female ; the legs have the same scale ornamentation.” 
Habitat .—This banded Culex was first found in a tank on 
the plain near Ulub Camp in May, 1904. It was breeding in rain 
water that had collected in this tank, with Stegomyia sugens. 
This species was also found in the Crater, Aden. 
Larva .—Head globular, with a few branched hairs on dorsum. 
The antennae are short with a tuft of hair on the inner side. 
