180 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Length,—5°5 mim. 
Habitat.—South Queensland (Bancroft); and. Somerville, 
Victoria (Froggatt). 
Time of capture.—August. , 
Observations.—I1 had previously redescribed the 9? from 
Victoria, but no g’s were received. Dr. Bancroft now sends a 
series of ¢ and ?’sfrom South Queensland. The ¢ is peculiar 
in having the hind ungues thick and uniserrated The palpi 
are also markedly ornamented. 
Mr. Froggatt sends some 9?’s from Victoria, taken in 
September, which all show the proboscis dark ochraceous, the 
apex and base black. The palpi are scattered all over with pale 
scales. 
606. Legs apically and basally banded. 
CuLEX GELIDUS. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. II., p. 20, 1901.) 
Additional localities—Quilon, 3 ?’s and 1 ¢ from Captain 
James (there is a distinct pale proboscis band, thus differing from 
the type); Ceylon at Kelani Valley, Peradenyia, in July and 
September (Green) ; Dindings, Straits Settlements, in November, 
and also at Dacca and Perak. 
Note.—The specimens sent by Mr. Cornford from China form 
a district variety (s¢nensis) described below. 
_ Variety cuneatus has also been sent by Mr. Green from 
Ceylon. 
Var. sinensis. n. V. 
@. Head with black upright forked scales at the sides as 
well as the white ones at the back and middle; palpi with a 
white scaled apex and pale scales scattered over them ; proboscis 
black with a median narrow yellow band. The median lobe of 
the scutellum has pale scales at its edge as well as the small 
black ones. 
Abdomen with broad yellow apical bands as well as basal bands. 
Stem of first sub-marginal cell more than half the length of 
the cell. | 
Length.—4°5 mm. 
Habitat.—Shaohyling, China (Cornford). 
_ Observations.—Very like the type, but differs in the abdominal 
ornamentation, black fork-scales on the head and white scales on 
the scutellum. 
