Genus Culex. 
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35. Culex cantans. Meigen (1818). 
Culex stimulans , Walker. 
Culex maculatus. Meigen (1818). 
Culex fumijpennis. Stephens. 
(Syst. Beschr. i. 6, 6, Meigen; Dipt. X. d. Fr. 160, 2, Macq. ; Ins. Lapp. 
806, 3, Zett. ; Dipt. Scald, ix. 3461, Zett.; Fn. Anstr. ii. 627, Schiner; 
Dipt. Neer. 326, Van der Wulp; Ins. Brit. Dipt. iii. 246, Walker; Bull. 
Soc. Eut. Ital. p. 2o8 (1896), Ficalbi; Syst. Beschr. i. 6, 7 (= maeu- 
latus ), Meigen.) 
(Fig. 78, PI. XX.) 
Thorax dark brown, covered with narrow reddish and 
golden-brown curved scales, which become paler and rather 
broader just before the scutellum and at the sides of the meso- 
thorax, a few also scattered about. Abdomen dark brown, 
with pale basal bands, which may spread out laterally on some 
of the segments; the last few may have traces of apical banding 
as well, the last segments sometimes mostly pale scaled. Legs 
dark brown, mottled with paler scales, metatarsi and tarsi with 
broad basal pale bands. 
9 . Head dark brown, with creamy-yellow curved scales 
over the occiput, and ochraceous and black upright forked ones, 
with flat creamy squamae at the sides, and also a small dark patch ; 
a clear creamy border to the eyes and a small tuft of golden- 
brown bristles between them ; antennae brown, basal joint and 
the three following joints bright testaceous, basal joint dark on 
the inner side with a few creamy scales, the next few joints also 
with a few scales; palpi bright brown, covered with black scales 
and a few white ones here and there and with black bristles ; 
proboscis testaceous, covered with dark brown scales, becoming 
nearly black at the apex, with a few scattered pale ones 
especially towards the middle. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with golden-yellow and golden- 
brown curved hair-like scales, which become slightly broader 
just before the scutellum and at the sides of the mesonotum ; in 
some specimens these scales may be seen scattered about over 
the whole surface, and may collect into an indistinct round spot 
on each side or as a pale line; scutellum brown, with curved, 
creamy, or golden-yellow scales, with golden-brown bristles on 
the posterior border of the mid lobe in a double row and 
numerous ones on the lateral lobes ; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae brown, clothed with patches of broad creamy-white 
scales and a few patches of short pale hairs. 
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