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of the second posterior cell not quite as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein long, about its own length distant from the mid 

 cross-vein. 



Halteres with pale stem and dusky knob clothed with dull 

 grey scales. 



Length.— 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Transvaal (C. B. Simpson). 



Described from a single male. Easily told by the apical 

 abdominal banding and lateral apical grey spots. 



Culex minutus. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Eco. Biol. I., p. 30 (1905). 



Thorax with golden scales, looking deeper reddish-brown at 

 the sides with three parallel dark lines, metanotum pallid. 

 Abdomen blackish-brown, with dull grey irregular basal bands 

 and white lateral spots extending along nearly the whole length 

 of the segments. Legs deep brown, with traces of small dull 

 apical spots on femora and tibiae. Five spines on prominence of 

 male genitalia, three being as long as the claspers. 



9 . Head clothed with narrow-curved pale creamy scales 

 and numerous black upright forked scales and small flat grey 

 lateral ones. 



Proboscis, palpi and antennae deep brown. Clypeus black, 

 elongated, Thorax deep brown, clothed with pale dull golden 

 narrow-curved scales, in some lights appearing dark (reddish- 

 brown) at the sides and with three parallel dark bare lines, scales 

 paler before the scutellum; scutellum greyish-brown, with 

 narrow-curved pale golden scales ; metanotum pale greyish ; 

 pleurae grey. 



Abdomen deep brown, with irregular indistinct grey basal 

 bands and large white lateral spots which seem to extend the 

 greater length of some of the segments ; posterior border-bristles 

 long and pallid. 



Legs deep brown, femora pale beneath, traces of pale spots 

 at the apices of femora and tibiae ; ungues small, equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with the first sub-marginal cell considerably longer 

 and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, its base 

 nearer the base of the wing, its stem less than one-fourth the 

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

 thirds the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein much longer 



