FREI). V, THKOHAinj M. A., ( ri.I([l)AK ETC. 237 



scales; scutellnm pale testaceous, with pale narrow-curved 

 scales; metauotum shin}', deep brown; pleurae brown and grey 

 with some flat grey scales. 



Abdomen deep brown with narrow dull ochreous pale 

 bands, except on the penultimate segment, the last segment 

 small with a basal white band. 



Legs brown with narrow basal bands involving both sides 

 of the joints, ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with 1)rown scales; the first submarginal cell longer 

 and narrower tlian the second posterior cell, its stem about 

 half as long as the cell, its Ijase nearer the Imse of the wing 

 than that of the second posterior cell, stem of the latter 

 about two thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein 

 rather more than thrice its own lenght distant from the mid ; 

 lateral vein scales long & thin. 



Length 2 to 2 — 5 mm. 



Habitat. Samarang, Java (Jacobson). 



Time of capture January ('00). 



Observations. Described from two 9's. A very small 

 banded proboscis species near Cnlej; vislumi Theobald. The 

 two dark lines on the integument of the thorax are very 

 characteristic and the apical and basal banding of the legs 

 also separate it from that species. 



10. Culex pseadouifala nov. sp. 



Thorax clothed with dull pale ochreous and browu scales, 

 having an indistinct tessellated appearance. Proboscis with a 

 br ad pale creamy white l>and and pale apex. Abdomen with 

 basal pale bands. Legs with narrow apical and basal pale bands. 



9. Head brown, clothed with pale narrow curved scales, 

 ochreous upright forked scales, except at the sides where they 

 are black, Hat lateral pale creamy scales ; palpi black scaled ; 

 clypeus black, prominent ; proboscis Ijlack with a broad creamy 



