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the proboscis deep brown, mottled in the middle and down to 

 the base with grey scales. 



Thorax deep brown, densely clothed with a thick coating of 

 brassy narrow-curved scales which become broader and paler 

 (almost creamy) before the scutellum; scutellum brown with 

 narrow-curved pale scales ; metanotum bright brown ; pleurae 

 deep brown with patches of flat white scales, which also occur on 

 the prothoracic lobes. 



Abdomen deep brown clothed with creamy scales, with a few 

 black ones here and there ; basal segment dusky with flat 

 creamy scales ; venter dark brown with dense flat creamy-white 

 scales. 



Legs ochreous brown mottled with deep brown and creamy 

 scales, all the tarsal segments dark bronzy-black with traces of 

 apical and basal pale banding except on the last two segments 

 of the fore and mid legs ; hind legs very similar (but last two 

 segments absent) ; fore and mid ungues equal and uniserrated. 



Wings with the veins speckled with dark and light scales, 

 the latter by far the most numerous ; fork-cells short, first 

 sub-marginal very slightly longer and narrower than the second 

 posterior cell, its stem as long as the cell, its base very slightly 

 nearer the apex of the wing ; stem of the second posterior slightly 

 longer than the cell about its own length distant from the mid- 

 cross vein ; halteres with dusky grey stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 6 mm. 



Habitat — Sousse, Tunis (Biro). 



Time of capture. — February (28th). 



Observations. — Described from a single 9 . The brassy thorax 

 is very pronounced. From G. pulehritarsis, Kond., it can be told 

 at once by the very long narrow-curved head scales. The legs 

 have a deep bronzy-purple hue on the tarsi in some lights, the 

 banding being dull white and often scarcely perceptible in some 

 lights. The majority of the vein scales are light and so give the 

 wings a light appearance. 



GitAiuiAMiA flavifkons. Skuse (1889). 



Culex flavifrons. Skuse (1889). 



J 'rue. Linn. Soc. N. B. Wales, III., p. 1735 (1889), Skuso ; Mono. Gulioid. I., 



p. 421 (1901), Theobald. 



Head with golden scales in the middle, brown ones at the 

 sides; proboscis dark at the apex with many pale scales on the 



