Genus Culex. 905 
Observations.—Described from a series sent me by Dr. 
Bancroft. It is a very marked species, easily told from all other 
mosquitoes of the genus Culex I have seen by the narrow 
cylindrical abdomen in the female and its truncated apex. The 
six white bands are also very characteristic. In the g the 
ungues present very marked characters and the six white 
abdominal bands are also very pronounced characters. I cannot 
identify these insects with any of Skuse’s Australian species, 
two or three of which I have still been unable to find in any 
collection sent either to the British Museum or to myself. The 
larvae of this species, like many Queensland mosquitoes, can live 
in salt water. One specimen bears on the label, “ Larvae in salt 
water of sp. gr. 1050.” 
I have placed the types of this species in the British Museum 
collection. 
CULEX SAGAX. Skuse. 
(Mono. Culicid. IT., p. 87, 1901, Theobald.) 
@. Head brown covered with narrow-curved pale golden 
scales, and ochraceous upright forked scales in the middle, a few 
black ones on each side, and a patch of flat white scales on each 
side ; antennae black, basal joint bright testaceous, with a few 
pale scales; proboscis black ; clypeus nude, black; palpi black 
scaled, a few pale ones at the apex. 
Thorax deep brown, with rich golden-brown and _ pale, almost 
white, narrow-curved scales ; fresh specimens show some orna- 
mentation as follows: Two more or less distinct paler scaled 
parallel median lines in front ending before they get to the 
scutellum in a patch of very pale, often almost white scales, a 
narrow pale scaled line on each side of these on the posterior 
half of the mesothorax and traces of a still shorter one on each 
side over the base of the wings; scales in front of the scutellum 
pale ; three rows of blackish bristles, the median ending before 
the scutellum ; scutellum clothed with pale scales, almost white 
in some specimens ; metanotum chestnut-brown ; pleurae brown, 
with patches of pale scales. 
Abdomen black (the scales having violet reflections), with 
basal irregular pale ochraceous to grey bands; rather hairy, the 
lateral hairs long ; venter pale ochraceous, with traces of darker 
scaled median spots. 
Legs deep brown unbanded, the bases and venter of the 
femora paler, apices of hind femora and tibiae pale yellowish ; 
