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heavy built Culex, very like a large C. fatigans, WiecL, but can 

 at once be told by the dentate ungues. The thoracic ornamen- 

 tation is marked in some very clearly, in others not so much. 



A Culex sent by Dr. Balfour from the Sobat in very damaged 

 condition seemed to be this species. 



Culex inconspicuus. Grossbeck (1904). 



Ent. News, p. 332, Dec. (1904) ; Mosq. N. Jersey, p. 295 (1905), Smith. 



Brown ; dorsal surface of thorax very dark brown, with pale 

 yellowish scales at the sides defining the central stripe. Abdomen 

 dark brown with basal grey bands. Legs and proboscis dark 

 unhanded. 



" Head dark brown, with many pale yellow scales scattered over 

 occiput ; proboscis and $ palpi dark brown, almost black, the former about 



Fig. 194. 



Culex inconspicuus. Grossbeck. 



a, Scales of siphon comb ; b, siphon and anal segment ; 

 c, labial plate ; d, scale of 8th segment. (After Smith.) 



half the length of the body. In the o* the palpi are evenly dark brown, 

 slender, dilated apically and longer than the proboscis by the terminal 

 and half of the penultimate segments. Antennae brown in both sexes, 

 with the basal two joints in $ testaceous. The dorsum of thorax dark 

 brown covered with pale yellowish scales at the sides, limiting a rather 

 broad central stripe, which is more or less well defined ; the shoulders are 

 covered with brown scales, becoming diffused posteriorly in the j^ellowish 

 scales. The pleura are brown with small spots of greyish white scales. 

 The legs are wholly brown with the under side of the femora yellowish 



