190 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
Thorax black, densely clothed with narrow-curved, rich 
golden-brown scales, paler at the sides and in front of the 
scutellum, almost grey in some lights; scutellum brown, with 
pale, narrow-curved scales and rich brown border-bristles ; 
metanotum brown; pleurae rich reddish-brown, with patches of 
grey scales. 
Abdomen black, clothed with large scales ; each segment with 
a large basal creamy patch, more or less triangular, and extending 
mostly to the apical border of the segments, apical border with a 
narrow line of creamy scales, laterally the segments are white 
scaled, the last three segments have the ornamentation indistinct, 
the pale scales being mostly apical; venter black, with large 
creamy-white scales scattered over it. 
Legs deep bronzy-brown, their ventral surface pure white, 
forming a more or less uniform white line; coxae white scaled ; 
ungues large, black, equal and simple. 
Wings with typical brown Culex scales, the first sub-marginal 
cell considerably longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, about four times as long as its stem; stem of the second 
posterior cell half as long as the cell, its base nearer the apex 

Fig. 99. 
Wing of Culex Creticus. @. Nn. sp. 
of the wing than that of the first sub-marginal ; posterior cross- 
vein longer than the mid, about two-thirds of its own length 
distant from it; the first sub-marginal cell is long, its base 
being just past the junction of the sub-costal and costal veins. 
Halteres ochraceous. 
Length. 6 mm. 
Habitat.— Crete. 
Observations.— Described from a single 9 with complete scale 
structure. The species is very marked; the abdominal orna- 
mentation, with its large and prominent scales, and the white 
