192 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
C. albopunctatus of Rondani, which would then have to sink as 
a synonym. 
The Algerian specimen sent by Dr. Sergent exactly resembles 
the typical European form, but the pale thoracic scales are 
almost yellow instead of white. 
CULEX ALBOLINEATUS. Giles. 
(Handbk. of Gnats, 2nd ed., p. 430, 1902, Giles.) 
Thorax deep brown, clothed with dull golden and a few pale 
bronzy scales, with two median black lines and traces of a curved 
lateral ones. Proboscis black, unbanded. Abdomen dusky-black, 
the segments with basal creamy bands, a paler median line runs 
down the centre of the abdomen; pale ventrally. Legs brown, 
unbanded, pale at the base and ventrally. 
@. Head brown, with narrow-curved pale golden to creamy 
scales, paler round the eyes and with numerous upright dark 
brown forked scales, a few rich ochraceous ones in the middle ; 
clypeus, palpi, proboscis and antennae deep blackish-brown. 
Thorax deep brown, covered with narrow-curved dull golden 
scales and some of a pale bronzy hue, showing two median 
parallel bare dark lines and traces of a curved dark line on each 
side of them; the scales are paler in front of the scutellum ; 
scutellum pale brown, with pallid narrow-curved scales and nine 
rich brown bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum chestnut- 
brown ; pleurae pale greyish-brown. 2 
Abdomen dusky-black, with narrow basal pale creamy to 
white bands and narrower ochraceous apical ones, the middle of 
the segments with pale ochraceous scales, forming a more or less 
distinct pale median line ; venter densely clothed with grey scales. 
Legs brown, unbanded, bases and venter of femora as well as 
the coxae very pale ochraceous ; ungues equal and simple, deep 
brown. 
Wings with long brown typical Culex scales, fork-cells rather 
long, the first sub-marginal considerably longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the 
wing, its stem less than one-third the length of the cell ; stem of 
the second posterior more than half the length of the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein about three times its own length distant 
from the mid cross-vein. Halteres pale ochraceous, with pallid 
scales. le al 
Length.—5:5 mm. 
