252 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Habitat. —Amazons (Bates) ; Guiana (Macq.); Brazil (Wied.). 
Observations. —The above description is from a nearly perfect 
specimen from the Amazons in the Hope Collection, Oxford 
University. It is quite distinct from Sabethes remises , Wied. 
The type of this species is in the Boyal Museum at Copenhagen, 
but it is only a remnant, without head or abdomen and with 
partly denuded legs. 
There seems to be some confusion in the descriptions of this 
species, due partly to bad specimens and partly to the fact that 
the white on the legs is ventral, and hence may or may not be 
seen when the insect is mounted on cardboard. Fabricius says, 
“Legs long, with compressed ciliate tibiae and w*hitish apices to 
the tarsi.” Wiedemann says the posterior tarsi are ciliate; 
Desvoidy, the tibiae and tarsi of the mid legs ; Macquart says 
the tarsi have not white tips as described by Fabricius, probably 
because he did not examine the ventral surface of the legs. 
Synonymy. —According to Macquart, it is the same as Culex 
loculipes, Desvoidy. Arribalzaga is certainly wrong in taking 
this species and C. remipes to be synonymous. 
Description from Fabricius 5 Syst. Anti. :— 
“ Black, with a coppery lustre, with elongated legs; hinder tibiae 
ciliate. A little longer than C. pipiens, haustellum with apex a little 
thickened. Antennae strongly pectinate; thorax and abdomen black, 
with a slight coppery lustre; wings dark; legs long, w r ith compressed 
ciliate tibiae and the tarsi white at their apices.” 
There is another $ in Frankfort Museum. In Macquart’s 
Dipt. Exot. i. p. 34, we find the following :— 
“ Synonymous with S. loculipes , Desvoidy. Ill-described. According 
to Fabricius, its hind instead of its middle legs are ciliate; Wiedemann 
gives the posterior tarsi; Desvoidy the tibiae and tarsi of the mid pair. 
Fabricius and Wiedemann both described 6 ’s, the one figured is a 9 ; 
the tarsi have not white tips as described by Fabricius, and the bases of 
the femora and fourth and fifth tarsal joints are not yellowish. Moreover, 
that of the hinder is not snow-white as described by Wiedemann. Wings 
narrow, and do not exceed the abdomen in length.”—Habitat (Guiana). 
