Genus Culex. P11 
brown scales, with a broad line of long paler ones in the middle, 
with numerous black, thin, upright forked scales and small flat 
grey ones at the sides; a slightly paler row of scales around the 
eyes ; palpi, proboscis and clypeus black; antennae deep brown, 
basal joint and base of the second joint testaceous. Thorax 
deep brown, with small narrow-curved golden-brown scales and 
showing two dark bare median parallel lines in front, slightly 
expanding anteriorly, with black bristles, especially dense over 
the roots of the wings; scutellum paler brown, with narrow 
curved pale scales and eight brown bristles to the mid lobe ; 
metanotum pale brown ; pleurae pale brown and grey. Abdomen 
black, unbanded, with golden border-bristles and now and then 
traces of a few pale scales along the bases of the segments ; 
there are also rather indistinct pale basal lateral spots, the 
apical segment with many ochraceous scales; venter all pale 
creamy. Legs deep brown, unbanded, venter of femora creamy- 
grey ; knee spot faint ; ungues small, equal and simple. Wings 
with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the 
second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than 
that of the latter; its stem less than one-fourth the length of 

Fig. 110. 
Wing of Culex Azoriensis. 9. Mn. Sp. 
the cell; stem of the second posterior rather more than half 
the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about one and a half 
times its length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres pale, 
with slightly darker knob. 
Length.—4 mm. 
g. Palpi deep brown, with a narrow pale basal band ; last 
two joints and one side of the apex of the antepenultimate joint 
with black hairs. Thorax, abdomen and legs as in the 9. Fork- 
cells of wings moderately long. Ungues of fore and mid legs 
unequal ; the larger uniserrated, the smaller (). 
Length.—4 mm. 
Habitat.—St. Michaels, Azores. 
Time of capture.—September. 
