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? . Head brown, clothed with narrow-curved pale grey scales, 

 amongst which are numerous upright black forked scales (the 

 general effect being brownish when seen with a hand lens only), 

 on each side a patch of flat white scales ; clypeus, palpi and 

 proboscis deep brown ; antennae brownish-black, the basal 

 segment paler with a few pale scales. 



Thorax deep brown with narrow-curved golden-brown scales 

 all sloping backwards with two more or less distinct parallel 

 median bare lines, brown bristles which are numerous over the 

 roots of the wings ; prothoracic lobes with grey scales ; scutellum 

 pale brown with narrow-curved greyish scales and brown border- 

 bristles ; metanotum pale chestnut brown ; pleurae pale grey with 

 a few pale scales. 



Abdomen pale greyish-brown covered with deep brown scales, 

 which are thinly disposed at the base of the segments which thus 

 present a faint false banding, basal segment pallid with two 

 patches of dark brown scales from which arise two groups of 

 short golden brown hairs which curve outwards and numerous 

 longer pale brown hairs from the body of the segment ; posterior 

 border-bristles of irregular size, indistinct dull pale dusky brown ; 

 each segment has prominent basal white lateral spots. 



Legs deep brown, unbanded, femora all pale grey below, the 

 hind ones grey above at the base as well, apex of the femora 

 with a pale grey spot ; posterior first tarsals and tibiae of equal 

 length ; ungues all equal and simple. 



Wings with typical brown Culex scales ; the first sub-marginal 

 cell considerably longer but only slightly narrower than the 



Fig. 188. 

 Wing of Culex neavei. 9 . Theobald. 



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

 wing than that of the second posterior cell, its stem more than 

 one-third the length of the cell, stem of the second posterior cell 

 about two-thirds the length of the cell ; posterior cross-vein 



