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and golden narrow-curved and hair-like scales showing more or 

 less linear arrangement. Abdomen deep brown with basal pale 

 bands and basal creamy lateral spots, venter creamy scaled. 

 Palpi, proboscis, legs uniformly brown, except the under side of 

 the femora, which are pale, and there is a yellow apical tibial 

 spot ; ungues large, equal, uniserrated. 



5? . Head dark brown, almost black, clothed behind and 

 over most of the mid area with large narrow-curved pale golden 

 scales, almost creamy -yellow in some lights and with a frontal 

 median patch of much smaller golden-brown ones, around the 

 eyes thin narrow-curved pale creamy scales and flat pale creamy 

 lateral ones ; upright forked scales not much expanded apically, 

 scanty and dark brown \ a pale yellow tuft projects beneath the 

 eyes ; palpi thick, deep brown or black, with long black bristles ; 

 proboscis deej) black ; antennae deep brown, basal segment and 

 base of the second segment testaceous, the former darker on the 

 inner side with a few creamy scales. Thorax deep brown clothed 

 with curved hair-like golden-brown and golden scales, the golden 

 scales forming two rather indistinct median parallel lines and a 

 curved lateral line on each side behind with a more or less 

 darkened area outside it, before the scutellum the scales are 

 paler and of normal curved form ; scutellum brown with narrow- 

 curved pale golden scales and brown border-bristles, seven to the 

 mid lobe ; metanotum brown ; pleurae black with patches of 

 creamy scales. 



Abdomen black with basal creamy scaled bands and lateral 

 spots, venter mostly creamy scaled ; on the apical segment the 

 creamy lateral spots join the basal band and look like extensions 

 of it down the sides. 



Legs brown, unbanded, but the femora are pale ventrally, 

 and there are yellow knee spots and traces of apical yellow tibial 

 spots ; ungues all equal, thick and with a thick tooth. 



Wings large and broad, scales of typical Culex form ; first 

 sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 

 cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the second 

 posterior cell, its stem a little more than one-third the length of 

 the cell ; posterior cross-vein about half its length distant from 

 the mid cross-vein ; halter es with pale stem and creamy scaled 

 knob. 



Length. — 5 to 5 ■ 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Isana, through Damot, Abyssinia. 



Observations. — Described from four females. It is a large 



