Genus Culex. 



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fore and mid legs there are traces of pale bands to some extent 

 involving both sides of the joints, but mainly apical, more- 

 prominent on the mid than fore, in the hind legs the bands are 

 very prominent, and the apex of the last hind tarsal is pale ; 

 ungues small equal and simple ; knee spot prominent. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 

 than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer the base 



of the 



wing, 



its stem about one-half the length of the cell 



Fig. 167. 

 Wing of Culex quasisecutor. $ 



Theobald. 



stem of the second posterior cell about two-thirds the length of 

 the cell ; posterior cross- vein longer than the mid, sloping 

 backwards, and not quite twice its own length distant from 

 it ; halteres pallid. 



Length. — 4 • 5 to 4 ' 8 mm. 



Fig. 168. 

 Another wing of Culex quasisecutor. 



Theobald. 



$ . Palpi acuminate, the two apical segments brown, 

 unbanded, the apical one longer than the penultimate, both with 

 scanty black hair-tufts ; the ante-penultimate with a broad 

 creamy band near the apex, and a smaller one towards the base 

 and traces of a still further basal one ; proboscis with traces of a 

 pale median band. Fore and mid ungues, unequal, underrate. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell much longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer 

 the base of the wing than that of the second posterior, its stem 



