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Wings witli typiciil Imiwii CuU'X scales; the first sub-marginal cell considtrnlily longer 

 hut only sliglitly narrower tlian flu- seeonil posterior cill, its base slightly nearer the base of 

 till- wing tliiiii that of tlie swoini posterior fell, its stem less than one-third the lengtli of the 

 eell, stem of the seeond posterior eell about two-thinls the length of the eel! ; posterior 

 cross-vein nearly twice its owni length distant from the mid. lialteres with grey stem and 

 fuscous knob. 



LriKjl/i 4 nun. 



Jfii/iitat. liUala's; Ludo, Upper Wliite Nile; (Sheflield Neave, Esq.). 



Jhiie of Ciipliiri'. January (28, 1,05), and February. 



Obsertuitions. Described from three females, all in perfect condition, one gorged with 

 blood and quite black. 



The species comes near Cuh'.r riridis (Tiuoli.), but can at once be told by the 

 different wing venation, pale grey pleura>, and from tlic luxt allied species by the hind 

 metatarsi and tibiie being the same length, ami by the ditlerences of the palpi and antennaj 

 shown in Figure 37. 



One specimen shows the stem of the first sub-marginal cell slightly longer than the rest. 



The scales on the basal lobe of the antennie I have not noticed before in any true Culex. 



The species appears to be eoMiinon. and may easily be confused with C. riridis and the 

 other allied species described liere. 



Culf.r ruhinotuK, n. sp. 

 *-■"'" Head browni with dull golden scales, creamy at the sides. Proboscis, palpi and 



antenna% brown. Thorax, bright reddish-brown with scanty narrow-curved blackish scales. 

 Abdomen clothed with deep blackish-bro^Ti scales and with traces of apical creamy-white 

 lateral spots, no basal bands. Legs yellowish-brown clothed with dusky brown scales; 

 liind metatarsi longer than the hind tibia;. 



9 Head brown witli small narrow-curveil dull golden scales, some rather long; iilack 

 upright forked scales and Mack bristles, pale creamy flat scales laterally ; clypeus brown 

 with an apparent median transverse sulcus indented in the middle ; palpi (Fig. 37, A 1) 

 denselv scaled with deepbrowni scales and with numerous deep browni bristles, base testaceous, 

 the scales being scanty ; proboscis deep brown, swelling apieally. 



Thorax bright reddish-brown, with scanty, small, narrow-curved blackish scales 

 (somewhat denuded) and with black bristles; scutellnm the same colour with similar ihirk 

 scales, posterior border-bristles of the mid lobe, six in number, three on each side with a 

 wide median space ; nietanotum, pale ochreous brown ; pleura', pale ochreous with a few 

 flat dusky scales and siniill curved bhick cli;e1a'. 



Abdomen clothed with deep, dusky, blackish-brown scales, with ti-aces of apical lateral 

 creamy spots; basal segment testaceous with a median patidi of black scales from which 

 proceeds a line of a few dull brown (dia-fa-, numerous other longer ones proceed from the 

 nude part of the segment ; posterior border-bristles dull golden-bro«ii, long at the sides, 

 shorter in the middle ; venter with many pale creamy scales. 



Legs unbanded. yellowish brown, covercfl with dusky brown scales, the ground colour 

 showing through basally ; ungues small, equal and simple ; the hiutl nietatai-si a little longer 

 than the hind tibise. 



Wings with the fork-cells rather short, the first sub-marginal cell much longer and 

 narrower tlian the second posterior cell, its stem about one-thinl the length of the cidl, 

 its ba.se nearer the base of the wing than that of the second posterior; second posterior cell 



