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greater part cf the dorsum, grey, saving a very fine black median line. 
Abdomen nearly black, the hinder border of the segments darkest. 
Taken at Bakloh, Punjab Himalayas, and also at Naini Tal; not 
common. 
Possibly purely a hill species, I have not been able to find its larves. 
Genus III, PPOROPHORA, R. Desv. 
4, PsoROPHORA sp. 
Q. Wings brindled with alternate ochreous and dark brown scales ; 
apical and internal fringe with eight dark interruptions. Legs banded, 
ochreous, and white, Palpi of ? half the length of the proboscis. 
Received from Major Close, I.M.S., Moradabad. 
5. PSOROPHORA sp, 
I am inclined to think that the above are identical, but the point 
cannot be decided without comparison. Both are large insects covered 
with woolly tomentum and looking much more like dung flies than 
like ordinary mosquitoes. 
Myingan, Burma. Coll. Brit. Museum. 
Genus V. CULEX, L. 
1. CuLex miveticus, Noe. (1899). 
Wings spotted ; anterior margin black, interrupted by three 
linear, pale yellow intervals about equal to the black spots in length, 
Body with smooth tomentum ? Abdominal segments with pale hasal 
bands ; tarsal joints with white basal bands. Proboscis banded. The 
femora of the middle legs are thickened at the base. A small species 
which mimics An. superpictus, the wings presenting a strong super- 
ficial resemblance to those of that species. Length about 5°6 mm. 
Taken at Bakloh, Punjab Himalayas, in May; at Shahjahanpur, 
N.-W. P., in early October ; in the Nilgiri Hills ; and apparently 
common all over India. } 
3. OuLex annuLatus, Schrank. 
With five, or more rarely fonr, black wing-spots. Tomentum 
smooth ; tarsi conspicuously banded ; thorax not dorsally orna- 
mented ; palpi of the male longer than the proboscis. 
Bakloh, Naini Tal, in the rains, 
4, CULEX sPATHIPALPIS, Rondani (1872). 
Wings with three black spots formed by accumulations of scales ; 
tarsi with obyious bands; tomentum smooth; thorax dorsally 
