Genus Culex . 343 
metanotum yellowish - brown ; pleurae chestnut - brown, with 
creamy-white scales. 
Abdomen with the basal part of the segments yellowish- 
brown, the apical black, the last two segments quite black; 
covered, but not densely, with dull creamy and very pale brown 
scales, the creamy ones at the bases of the segments and showing 
up more distinctly on the black posterior segments ; rather long 
lateral golden-brown hairs. 
Legs yellowish-brown ; femora with scattered brown and grey 
scales; fore tibiae brown-scaled with a line of white scales, not 
visible in those of the mid and hind legs; metatarsi and first two 
tarsi with basal pale bands, most distinct on the hind feet ; 
ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the veins clothed with rather long narrow scales, 
which are more densely collected in four patches, forming four 
spots, namely at the bases of the fork-cells, at the supernumerary 
and mid cross-veins and at the base of the second long vein; the 
two fork-cells are long, the first sub-marginal longer but about 
the same width as the second posterior, their bases nearly level ; 
second posterior cell long, its stem equal to half its length; stem 
of the first sub-marginal equal to one-third of its length ; posterior 
cross-vein sloping towards the base of the wing, about half its 
own length distant from the mid cross-vein; halteres ferruginous, 
with a fuscous knob. 
Length. —6 to 6 * 5 mm. 
Habitat. —Madeira. 
Observations. —Described from two specimens in the British 
Museum collection. One shows the abdomen steely-black all 
over, with yellow scales, but differs in no other respects from the 
one here described except that the mid leg banding is not so 
distinct. Very closely related to C. sjpatliipalpis, if not identical. 
7. Culex Bigotii. Bellardi.* 
(Mem. R. Acad. Torino, se. 2, T. xxii. p. 200.) 
(Fig. 62, PL XVI.) 
Thorax dusky yellow at the sides, dark brown on the dorsum, 
with pale golden curved scales, the dark dorsum appearing as a 
dark median broad line which expands into a brown spot in front 
of the scutellum. Abdomen blackish-brown, with yellow basal 
* This species will have to be removed from Culex , and will form the 
type of a nc-w genus. 
