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BY PRANK H. TAYLOR. 463 



CULEX BIOCELLATUS, n.Sp. 



(Plate xxxvi., figs. 14-15.) 



Head clothed with golden scales. Thorax brown, clothed with 

 golden scales, Abdomen black-scaled, with ochraceous basal 

 banding. Legs with the first three tarsi basally banded. 



9. Head brown, clothed with golden, narrow-curved and 

 upright-forked scales, with small, flat, golden ones laterally; pro- 

 boscis black, with the middle third mottled with golden scales; 

 palpi black-scaled; eyes black and silvery; antennae black, basal 

 lobes and base of second segment yellow. 



Thorax brown, clothed with golden, narrow-curved scales; pro- 

 thoracic lobes clothed with flat, golden scales and bristles; scu- 

 tellum yellow, clothed with golden, narrow-curved scales; pleurae 

 brown, clothed with creamy, flat scales and golden bristles; meta- 

 notum yellowish-brown. 



Abdomen pale, black-scaled, first segment clothed with creamy 

 scales and golden bristles, the second and fifth to seventh seg- 

 tnents with broad, ochraceous, basal banding, remaining segments 

 with narrow banding, all the segments with lateral, white, basal 

 spots, posterior border-bristles golden; venter with the first two 

 segments creamy-yellow, remaining segments with creamy-yellow, 

 basal banding. 



Legs black-scaled; fore-legs with the femora creamy-yellow 

 beneath, tibiae and first tarsals mottled with yellow scales beneath, 

 first and second tarsi with basal pale spots, remaining tarsi un- 

 handed; mid-legs with the basal two-thirds of the femora pale 

 beneath, the base and apex with golden rings, the first three 

 tarsi with white basal bands; hind-femora creamy, with a broad, 

 almost apical, black band and an apical pale ring, the first three 

 tarsi with broad, white, basal banding; ungues of fore- and mid- 

 legs equal and uniserrate, hind equal and simple. 



Wings clothed with black scales, with a yellow costal spot at 

 the base, and another extending to the first longitudinal vein 

 immediately above the first fork-cell; fringe black; first fork-cell 

 longer and scarcely narrower than the second: the anterior basal 

 cross-vein longer than the anterior cross-vein, and about once 



