THEOBALD— DIPTERA, CULICID^ 



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Abdomen unhanded but with basal lateral yellow spots. Legs unhanded, apex of 

 femora and tihiee pale, venter of femora pale. 



? (Text-fig. 4.) Head brown, with dense narrow-curved pale golden scales, rich 

 golden upright forked scales in the middle, dark ones at the sides and flat pale creamy 

 scales laterally, chsetae brown with golden reflections ; clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep 

 brown ; antennae brown, basal segment bright ochreous. 



Thorax (Plate 4, fig. 3) deep rich brown with narrow-curved almost hair-like scales, 

 ornamented as follows with golden and rich bronzy brown — two submedian golden-scaled 

 parallel lines in front, each with a faint median dividing darker line, a curved line of 

 similar coloured scales on each side, but brighter, bent inwards about the middle of the 

 mesonotum and continued backwards parallel with the two submedian lines, another short 

 line in front of the roots of the wings ; chsetae dark brown with golden reflections ; scutellum 

 brown with narrow-curved pale scales and with eight posterior border bristles ; metanotum 

 deep brown ; pleurae deep brown with three patches of dull grey flat scales. 



Abdomen black, unhanded, with golden posterior border bristles ; laterally are basal 

 golden yellow to creamy spots, venter with similar coloured basal bands, pale at the base. 



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Fig. 6. Culex scotlii, nov. sp. a. Wing of (J. b. Wing of ? . Fig. 7. Culex scottii, nov. sp., genitalia of cJ. 



Legs dark brown, venter of femora, except near apex, pale creamy, a pale spot at the 

 apex of femora and a more prominent one at apex of tibiae, especially on the hind legs ; 

 ungues equal and simple. 



Wings (Text-fig. 6 b) with the apices of the veins densely scaled, with long thin 

 lateral scales, fork-cells long, the first submarginal much longer and a little narrower than 

 the second posterior cell, its base much nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, 

 its stem very short, less than one-fifth the length of the cell ; stem of the second fork-cell 

 a little more than half the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein sloping backwards, 

 nearly twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. 



Halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob with some grey scales. 



Length. 3 '5 to 4*5 nun. 



