198 A Monograph of Culicidae. 
- Observations.—Described from a single perfect ¢ and ? sent 
me-by Dr. Lutz.. It is a very distinct species, easily told by the 
marked thoracic ornamentation. The wing venation is strikingly 
like Culex pipiens. The abdominal ornamentation is also peculiar 
in the @. 
The types I have deposited in the British Museum (N aie 
History). 
CULEX VARIOANNULATUS. 2. sp. 
Thorax clothed with golden-brown narrow-curved scales, 
placed with the hairs so as to give a faint linear ornamentation. 
Abdomen deep brown, the third, fourth and fifth segments with 
basal pale bands and sometimes the second, and the rest un- 
banded. Legs unbanded, deep brown, coxae and femora greyish 
beneath ; knee spot white. Wings with typical Cules scales. 
?. Head brown, with narrow-curved, creamy scales and 
brownish-black upright forked scales, small, flat, grey ones at the 

Fig. 101. 
Heads of, a, Culex Azoriensis ; b, C. varioannulatus. 
sides ; palpi, proboscis, and tos black ; antennae brown, 
almost black. 
Thorax deep brown, ike dull, golden-brown narrow-curved 
scales and rows of black bristles ; scutellum paler brown, almost 
grey In one specimen, with eight large border-bristles and several 
smaller ones; metanotum pale brown; pleurae pale brown and 
frosty grey. 
