Genus Culex. 189 
banded with deep brown and grey, plume-hairs deep brown; 
proboscis deep brown. 
Thorax much as in the 9. 
Abdomen with basal white marks more as uniform bands 
and the lateral white scales prominent ; genitalia very bristly. 
Legs not so distinctly white lined as in the 9 ; fore and mid 
ungues unequal, both uniserrated and black. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell nearly half the length 
of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell nearly as long as 
the cell, the bases more level than in the 9°. 
Length.—5 to 5:5 mm. 
Time of capture.—March (Pretoria) ; October (Madeira). 
Habitat.— Pretoria (Dr. Theiler) ; Madeira (Dr. Grabham). 
Observations.—Described from a single perfect @ and an 
imperfect ¢ from the Transvaal. A number of specimens has 
also been recently sent by Dr. Grabham from Madeira. These 
show some considerable variation in regard to the abdominal 
banding. ‘The spots and white lines on the legs also vary ; in 
some we get rows of spots on the fore femora, in others complete 
lines. The lines are always more or less prominent, which 
renders its identification easy. OC. Creticus is the only species 
it can be confused with, 
CuLEX CRETICUS. na. sp. 
Head clothed with pale creamy scales in the middle, grey at 
the sides, ochraceous upright forked scales on the occiput, black 
ones laterally ; proboscis coppery-brown ; palpi black, white at 
apex. Thorax deep brown, densely clothed with rich golden- 
brown scales, paler at the sides and in front of the scutellum ; 
pleurae pale brown, with some grey scales. Abdomen black, with 
basal triangular, irregular white patches, extending more or less 
irregularly down the segments, with narrow, apical, creamy 
borders, on the apical segments; the white scales are more 
abundant apically than basally ; venter mostly white scaled. 
Legs black to bronzy, with a white scaled line ventrally. 
@. Head brown, with narrow-curved creamy scales, upright 
ochraceous forked scales in the middle and black ones at the 
sides, and then flat grey scales; proboscis thick, covered with 
bronzy scales ; palpi black, with white scales apically and a few 
scattered over the whole of the palpi; antennae black, basal 
joint testaceous ; clypeus black. 
