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behind and on the scutellum. Proboscis black, with a white 

 band. Abdomen black, with basal white bands and lateral 

 spots. Legs black ; femora pale at base, with a line or row of 

 spots, also the tibiae with a line of white spots. First and 

 other tarsals showing apical and basal white banding ; last hind 

 tarsal with a black median band or all white. Wings unspotted. 

 J . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved grey scales in 

 the middle and behind, white ones forming a border around the 

 eyes, brown ones between ; at the sides small flat white scales, 

 in the middle numerous upright forked ones, laterally they are 

 black ; two long brown bristles project forwards between the 

 eyes. Palpi black-scaled, with some large white scales at the 

 apex, and some forming a ring near the base ; proboscis black 

 with a white band ; antennae black, basal and second segments 

 dark testaceous, the basal segment with white scales internally ; 

 clypeus brown. 



Thorax brownish-black with rich reddish-brown narrow-curved 

 scales and a few broader grey ones at the sides in front, and 

 some arranged in lines behind the mesonotum. On its surface 

 are two pale spots, two of the posterior white lines being con- 

 tinued back from them. Two short broader ones are situated in 

 front of the bare space before the scutellum. The reddish-brown 

 scales have a linear arrangement, due to two prominent median 

 bare lines ; scutellum brown, with narrow-curved pale scales and 

 brown border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown 

 with grey scales. 



Abdomen black, with basal white bands and white lateral 

 spots ; venter yellowish-brown with scattered grey scales. 



Legs black, banded, striped and spotted in lines with white ; 

 base of femora grey to dull ochreous, pale beneath, with a row 

 of white spots above, almost forming a line ; apex white ; fore 

 and mid tarsal segments with narrow apical and basal yellowish 

 bands, except the last tarsal segment ; in the hind legs the 

 tarsal segments have broad, almost white bands, the last 

 tarsal in some specimens being almost all white ; ungues equal 

 and simple. 



Wings with the veins very densely scaled with typical Culex 

 scales, those at the base of the third long vein thicker, forming a 

 small, rather obscure, dark spot ; first sub-marginal cell longer 

 and considerably narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base slightly nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one- 

 third the length of the cell ; posterior cross- vein not quite its 



