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abdominal banding and the white tibial spot readily separate it. 
It also answers in some ways to Meigen’s Culex striticus ; but the 
thorax, although partly denuded, shows definite ornamentation, 
and there are no lateral abdominal spots, and the posterior cross- 
vein in the Palestine species is much further back than in the 
type of C. striticus inthe Jardin des Plantes. 
I have placed the types in the British Museum collection. 
CULEX NIGRITULUS. Zetterstedt. 
(Mono. Culicid. IT., p. 140, 1901.) 
Additional locality.—Crete. 
Note on the $ genitalia.—The male genitalia (fig. 103) is very 
marked ; the claspers are broad and sickle-shaped and have a 
twisted terminal process, the internal lateral processes consist of 
two large spines and a group of small ones, and in addition a 
lamelliform process shaped much like a dipterous wing. 

Fig. 103. 
- Culex nigritulus, Zetterstedt. 
o& genitalia (Crete). 
General notes.—A large series has been sent from Crete per 
Colonel David Bruce. They resemble in all respects the specimens 
T found in my garden in England, which I identified as C. 
nigritulus, Zett., except that in the ¢ there is only one pale 
band to the palpi, and in both sexes the venter is mainly pale 
scaled. I cannot, however, separate the Cretan specimens from 
the British by any structural peculiarity, unless the g genitalia 
