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scales as the sides; rather bristly, especially over the roots of the 
wings ; scutellum paler brown, with narrow-curved pale scales ; 
metanotum chestnut-brown ; pleurae dark brown, with silvery- 
white puncta. Abdomen blackish, unbanded, with basal white 
lateral spots, which are very prominent ventrally, especially on 
the apical segments, the spots being more or less triangular in 
form, and pale border-bristles; venter dark, with apparently 
basal white bands. Legs blackish-brown, coxae, venter and 
base of femora silvery white, knee spot pale ; femora, tibiae and 
metatarsi with pale bristles; ungues of the fore, mid and hind 
legs equal, thick, uniserrated. , 
Wings with brown scales ; the first sub-marginal cell longer 
and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base very slightly 
the nearer of the two to the apex of the wing, its stem nearly 

Fig. 109. 
Wing of Culex crinifer. 9. Nn. Sp. 
half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior about 
half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres pale, with a 
fuscous knob. 
Length.—5 to 5°5 mm. 
Habitat.—Sao Paulo (Dr. Lutz). 
Observations.—Described from two specimens sent by Dr. 
Liitz, who proposed the name under which it is here described. 
It is a very marked species, easily told by its thoracic adornment. 
CuLEX AZORIENSIS. 0. sp. 
(Plate X.) 
Thorax brown, with small narrow dull golden-brown scales 
and two median bare parallel lines in front. Abdomen deep 
brown above, unbanded, with basal lateral pale spots and pale 
venter. Legs deep brown, unbanded. Wings with the fork-cells 
as in C. pipiens. Palpi and proboscis deep brown, unbanded. 
Head with long narrow-curved golden scales forming a median line. 
Q. Head (Fig. 101, a) brown, with curved dull pale golden- 
