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as well as ochreous hinder borders to the segments, and long 

 white lateral spots. Wings with transverse veins placed far out, 

 and fork cells unusually short, their veins with flaxen scales. 



? .■ — Head of a warm dark brown ; proboscis rather pale brown, 

 darker at the top ; palpi dark brown, with clear brown rings in the middle 

 and at the tip ; nape densely covered with lighter yellow, curved scales. 

 Pleurae brown, marbled with white. Halteres pale brown. Legs deep 

 brown, except on the femora, which are lighter, especially on their under- 

 sides. Ventral segments pallid, with narrow dark hinder borders. 

 Length. — 5 mm. 



Habitat. — China — Redescribed from a specimen sent me by Capt. 

 Victor Lindesay, I. M.S., from Hong Kong. 



43. COLEX C^CUS, Theobald (Monog. I, p. 413). 



Tarsi nearly black, with all the hind, and the upper three 

 joints of the fore and mid legs, narrowly basally white banded. 

 Thorax dark brown, with bright tawny curved scales. Abdomen 

 dark, with narrow basal whitish bands. Nape grey, with a black 

 patch on either side. Prothoracic lobes very distinct. 



2 . — Eyes with narrow whitish orbits ; cephalic appendages brown. 

 Scutellum paler than the rest of the mesonotum, with broadish white 

 scales on the lateral lobes and a few narrow ones at the base ; seven 

 distinct brown hairs on the median lobe of the scutellum, and many 

 others on the lateral lobes ; metanotum pale brown ; pleurae pale 

 ochreous with three large patches of greyish-white scales. Legs 

 yellowish-brown with paler knee-spots; tarsal claws of fore and mid 

 pairs equal, each with a small basal extra tooth. Length. — 5 mm. 

 Habitat. — Straits Settlements, in Mangrove swamps ; November. 



44. CULEX PROCAX, Skuse (" S. A. C." p. 1742). 



Wings unspotted ; tarsi with basal white bands on all but 

 the end joints of fore and mid legs. Thorax red-brown with 

 golden scales, unadorned. Abdomen black, the segments narrowly 

 banded white in front and fringed yellow behind. Head with a 

 clear white spot on either side. Tarsal claws -of ? , equal and 

 simple. Very diminutive. 



5 . — Head, umber-brown to black ; palpi black-scaled with a few 

 grey ones intermixed ; proboscis ferrugmous, black at apex and base. 

 Pleuris umber- brown, with scattered white scales. Undersides of femora 

 pale ; legs elsewhere dark brown. Halteres yellow. Venter black, with 

 a few white scales. Length. — 3'8 mm. 



Habitat — Queensland and N.S.W., Australia. Said by Skuse to fly 

 by day. 



