350 
A Monograph of Culiciclae. 
/3/3£. Abdomen banded basallv. 
Thorax golden scaled ; proboscis 
of $ indistinctly banded; in 
cf distinctly. dissimilis. n. sp. 
aa. Thorax adorned. 
0. Abdomen with basal white bands 
and also bands at the apices of 
the last three segments. 
Thorax black with yellowish 
scales, with a dorsal grey vitta, 
with a white sub-dorsal un¬ 
dulating line on each side. tarsalis. Coquillett. 
£0. Abdomen with basal median pale 
creamy or yellow patches. 
Thorax with deep golden-brown 
scales and two creamy sealed 
spots. lnrsutipolpis. n. sp. 
Note.— C. albirostris, Macquart (p. 382), position doubtful. 
C. conjinnis , Arribalzaga (p. 382), position doubtful. 
11. Culex taeniorhynchus. Wiedemann (1821). 
(Dipt. Exot. p. 43 (1821); Ausseurop. Zweifl. Ins. p. G, Wiedemann (1828).) 
(Fig. 68 , PI. XY1I.) 
Thorax dark brown, covered with fairly close golden-brown 
curved scales. Abdomen black, with basal bands of creamy- 
white scales and pure white lateral spots. Legs dark brown ; 
tarsi and metatarsi with basal white bands, last hind tarsus pure 
white; tibiae with a few yellowish spots ; fore and mid ungues 
of 9 toothed; proboscis banded white in the middle. 
9 . Head with golden and creamy scales forming a ground¬ 
work, with numerous black upright forked scales all over the 
occiput, with two patches of flat creamy scales at the sides, 
separated by a patch of dark purplish-black scales; the inner 
patches of creamy scales bend round to the borders of the eyes ; 
there are also numerous black bristles projecting in front; eyes 
silvery ; palpi yellowish, with scattered black scales at the base 
and towards the apex, extreme apex covered with white scales : 
bristles black ; proboscis dark brown, with a creamy-white band 
about its middle—this band varies from • 5 to *3 mm., and is, if 
anything, placed a little nearer the base than the middle; 
antennae brown, with testaceous basal joint and base of the 
