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with any other European banded-legged form from the speckled 
appearance of the legs and the venation in the 9 • I make C. 
vexans and C. annulipes its nearest allies, both with very narrowly 
instead of broadly banded legs. In C. annulipes the ungues are 
equal and simple, but in C. vexans they are toothed, but narrower 
than in C. cantans. Numerous 9 s > sent by E. M. Walker from 
Canada, were identified as Walker’s C. stirnulans , a badly described 
species from the United States. These, after repeated examina¬ 
tion, are found to be the same as Culex cantans of Europe. It 
is common in rich woods and swamps in Canada, and was taken 
from the borders of various marshes and swamps, and one from 
the interior of a cottage near Lake Simcoe. A single specimen 
from Stony Mountain, Manitoba, is slightly larger than the 
Ontario specimens, and has more whitish-yellow scales scattered 
about over the abdomen, and the thoracic ornamentation is also 
more marked ; the two paler lines end in front in small rounded 
masses of pale scales, and the space in front of the scutellum has 
also more pale scales, whilst the bristles of the scutellum are 
darker, in fact it more closely approaches the British form than 
those from Ontario. Many of these Canadian specimens have 
numerous pale scales on the apical segments, in one or two the 
segments appearing almost entirely pale coloured. Dr. Price of 
Conoor has taken it in India at an elevation of 6000 feet, in the 
Nehilgerry Hills. 
Synonymy .— I feel certain that the species described by 
Meigen under the name maculatus (S. B. i. 6, 7) is only a male 
of C. cantans. From examination of an excellent series from 
Canada and the type, Walker's C. stirnulans is also sy non vinous. 
Stephens’s C. fumipennis is this species. 
36. Culex vexans. Meigen (1830). 
Culex articulatus. Rondani (1872). 
(Syst. Besohr. vi. 241,16, Meigen ; Dipt. 8cand. ix. B4G 4 . Zett. : Tsis (1861), 
1203,50, Rathe; Fn. Anstr. ii. 627, Schiner; Dipt. Xeer. 325. V. <1. 
Wulp; Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 25S (1896), Fiealbi, ami Veuti Specie Zan. 
Ital. p. 125 (1899), Fiealbi; Sp. Ital. d. Gen. Culex, Bull. Soe. Ent. 
Ital. (1872), Rondani ( = articulatus).) 
I have not seen this species. The specimens I have previously 
taken for it in England are a new species. 
The following are notes gathered from Fiealbi, who has 
worked this species out in detail (Venti Spec. Zan. Ital. p. l‘2o). 
