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scattered ochreous scales, most dense on the apical segments. 

 Legs deep brown, unbanded, deep ochreous at the base. Wings 

 with the first sub-marginal cell considerably longer than the 

 second posterior cell, its stem very short. 



J . Head deep brown, with narrow-curved golden scales and 

 with thin upright deep brown forked scales. Palpi deep brown ; 

 proboscis deep brown at the apex with the basal half dull 

 yellowish-brown to ochreous ; antennae black, basal segment deep 

 testaceous. 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved deep golden-brown 

 scales, with two oblong areas just in front of the roots of the 

 wings darker than the rest, with very small narrow-curved scales, 

 the scales in front of it somewhat paler than the rest, those in 

 front of the scutellum also somewhat paler ; scutellum testaceous 

 with narrow-curved pale scales and deep brown border-bristles ; 

 metanotum bright brown ; pleurae deep brown with some pale 

 scaled areas. 



Abdomen black with blackish-brown scales and with yellow 

 scaled basal bands on the second to fifth segments, the following 

 with scattered yellow scales all over them ; venter black with 

 scattered yellow scales all over it. 



Legs uniformly deep brown with a pale spot, almost white at 

 the junction of the femora and tibiae ; the coxae deep testaceous ; 

 fore, mid and hind ungues equal and simple. 



Wings with the first submarginal cell very much longer and 

 slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem nearly 

 one-fifth the length of the cell ; its base much nearer the base of 

 the wing than that of the second posterior cell ; stem of the 

 second posterior cell rather more than half the length of the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein about one and a half times its own length 

 distant from the mid. 



Halteres pale ochreous. 



Length. — 4 # 8 mm. 



Habitat. — Sfax, Tunis (M. Biro). 



Observations. — Described from a single 9 • It comes very 

 near Culex bi color, Meigen, but is smaller and the whole abdomen 

 is not densely ochreous scaled. It also answers to Ficalbi's 

 description of his Culex modestus, but does not agree with the 

 specimens described as rnodestus by Kertesz, and which also agree 

 with Ficalbi's description. It differs from the latter in its 

 darker thorax and basal yellow abdominal banding and ochreous 

 scaled apex and also in the fork-cells. The first sub-marginal cell 



