Genus Culex. D7 
median parallel dark lines and very indistinct lateral ones ; scu- 
tellum paler, with narrow-curved pale scales, and with six bristles 
to the median lobe ; metanotum chestnut-brown ; pleurae brown, 
with numerous grey scales, almost white. 
Abdomen banded black and white, the white bands are narrow 
and apical, on the second and third segments they are slightly 
expanded in the middle ; basal segment paler, with median grey 
and afew dark scales ; border-bristles and lateral ones prominent, 
very pale ; venter white, with dark lateral patches. 
Legs black, with deep violet reflections, unbanded; knee 
spot pure white, very distinct; coxae paler, with white scales, 
venter of femora pale; ungues dark brown, all equal and 
simple. 
Wings with typical Culex scales, of pale brown colour ; first 
sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than the base of the 
second posterior cell, its stem less than half the length of the cell ; 
stem of the second posterior cell rather shorter than that of the 
former, a little less than half the length of the cell; posterior 
cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the mid cross- 
vein. Halteres pale. 
Length.—7 to 8 mm. 
$- fPalpi pointed, longer than the proboscis, black, with a 
median white band. Antennae black, with pale scales on the 
basal segments. 
According to Ficalbi, in hortensis the fore and mid ungues 
are unequal, the larger one uniserrated ; the hind pair small, 
equal and simple.. 
Length.—-5 to 7 mm. 
Time of capture.—J uly (Palestine). 
Habitat.—Safed, Palestine (Cropper); Paris (Olivier and 
Robineau-Desvoidy) ; Italy (Ficalbi) (°). 
Synonymy.—Olivier described in 1791 (article ‘Cousin. 
Culex”; Encyclop. Méthodique, Hist. Naturelle, Insectes. ‘Tome 
sixiéme. Paris) a Culex under the name of C. geniculatus. The 
short description given applies to this insect in every detail. 
Although no mention is made of the banded palpi, such, however, 
would easily be overlooked in a cursory examination for such a 
short description. 
Ficalbi’s C. hortensis is the only European species that agrees 
with it, and I fancy it may be the same.  Ficalbi’s name, 
hortensis, would therefore sink as a synonym. 
