366 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
tarsi brownish. Wings a little yellowish, with reddish vein- 
cells normal. 
Length. —3^ lines. 
Tasmania. 
Type in Bigot’s Collection. 
Culex hortensis. Eicalbi (1899). 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 292 (1899), Ficalbi ; Mono. Cnlicid. II., 117 (1901), 
Theobald. 
Italy. 
Culex pseudolongifurcatus. Theobald, nov. nom. 
Culex longifurcatus. Theobald (non Becker 1903) (1910). 
Bee. Ind. Mus. IV., 19 (1910). 
Thorax uniformly fuscous and smoky; head much the same 
colour, but with some paler scales ; palpi, proboscis and antennae 
smoky-brown; abdomen deep brown, with basal pale bands 
spreading out in the middle to form median patches; legs uni¬ 
formly smoky-brown ; wing rather long and narrow, fork-cells long, 
the veins and scales very thin. Male palpi thin, no hair tufts. 
9. Head dark, clothed with dull creamy narrow-curved 
scales, small, flat, creamy, lateral ones, numerous dark upright 
forked scales, some paler ones in front; palpi, clypeus, proboscis 
and antennae brown. 
Thorax dark brown with fuscous brown, scanty, narrow-curved 
scales and brown chaetae ; scutellum brown with similar narrow- 
curved scales ; metanotum brown and testaceous; pleurae dark 
brown and grey. 
Abdomen deep brown, with basal, almost white bands which 
are enlarged in the middle, forming more or less pronounced 
spots ; border-bristles pallid ; venter all grey scaled. 
Legs long and thin, uniformly brown, except the under side of 
the femora which is completely creamy-white; ungues equal and 
simple. 
Wings large and long; fork-cells long; first sub-marginal 
longer and narrower than the second posterior, their bases nearly 
level, its stem about one-third the length of the cell; stem of the 
second posterior less than one-third the length of the cell; 
posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, about one and a half 
times its own length distant from it; lateral vein-scales on the 
apical areas of the veins long' and thin. 
