Genus Aecles. 
483 
They tabulate - as follows : — 
A. Abdomen unbanded. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with paler 
median line darker on either side, with 
scattered golden-brown curved scales ; 
abdomen black, with dull grey lateral 
scales............................................. cinereus. Meigen. 
General dark brown colour; a prominent 
tuft of spines at apex of tibiae ; head 
dark ..v... nigrescens . Theobald. 
General dark brown colour, but head 
dull ochreous brown ........................ inconspicuosus. Theobald. 
A A. Abdomen more or less banded ............... fuscus. Osten Sacken. 
Aedes cinereus. Meigen (1818). 
Aedes rufus. Gimmerthal (1845). 
Syst. Beschr. I., 13 (1818), Meigen; Mono. Culicid. II., 232 (1901) ; 
IV., 539 (1907), Theobald. 
England, Austria, Hungary, Norway and Sweden, Italy. 
Additional localities. —Kortenhoof, Holland ; 2 J V, 1. viii 03, 
in Amsterdam Museum, and near Hollar, Scotland (Evans), 1 $ . 
Aedes nigrescens. Theobald (1907). 
Mono. Oulicid. IV., 540 (1907). 
Castle Rock, India. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Aedes inconspicuosus. Theobald (1908). 
Entomologist XLI., 109, Theobald (1908). 
Head dull ochreous brown, paler than the brown thorax ; 
abdomen, legs, and proboscis, all dark brown. 
9. Head deep brown, with small rather loose flat scales 
over most of the area, some dull ochreous, others brown, and 
others 'with a dull violet tinge, the ochreous hue prevailing, 
behind a large patch of narrow-curved ochreous scales, thin 
ochreous upright forked scales behind, brown in front; chaetae 
long, deep brown ; palpi rather small, proboscis and clypeus deep 
brown ; antennae deep brown. 
Thorax deep brown, with narrow-curved pale brown scales, 
showing some ochreous reflections ; chaetae deep brown ; scu- 
tellum pale brown, with narrow-curved pale scales and five deep 
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