Genus Culex. 447 



brown apically, paler basally ; pleurae very pale. Abdomen 

 deep brown, with basal pale creamy bands. Legs uniformly 

 brown, paler at their bases. Male palpi dark brown, unhanded. 



9 . Head deep brown, clothed with pale narrow-curved 

 scales, brown and dull ochreous upright forked scales and 

 small flat grey lateral scales. Palpi narrow, deep brown ; 

 proboscis deep brown apically, paler towards the base ; clypeus 

 deep brown ; antennae brown, with narrow grey bands. 



Thorax brown, densely clothed with narrow-curved dull pale 

 scales, giving it a general uniform pale fawn-coloured appearance, 

 bristles apparently absent on the dorsum, brown ones laterally, 

 traces of two dusky median lines seen in some lights ; scutellum 

 of similar colour to mesothorax, with eight long brown posterior 

 border-bristles spread out fan-like, and with long pale narrow- 

 curved scales projecting between ; metanotum brown ; pleurae 

 very pale grey. 



Abdomen deep brown, with narrow basal pale bands and 

 many pale scales on the last segment and on the apical border of 

 the penultimate, border-bristles pale brown. 



Legs uniformly brown, femora pale at base and beneath, a 

 pale spot on the apex of the hind femora; ungues equal and 

 simple. 



Wings with the fork-cells of nearly equal length, the base of 

 the second posterior if anything slightly the nearer the base of 

 the wing ; stem of the first sub-marginal slightly more than half 

 the length of the cell, stem of the second fork cell more than 

 half the length of the cell ; posterior cross- vein about one and 

 a-half times its own length distant from the mid cross-vein, the 

 sixth vein very close to the fifth ; halteres ochreous. 



Length. — 5 * 5 to 5'8 mm. 



$ . Resembles ? in general appearance, but the flat scales 

 at the sides of the head spread rather further on to the crown ; 

 palpi deep brown, acuminate, apical segment a little longer than 

 the penultimate, both deep brow^n with deep brown hair-tufts, 

 traces of very narrow pale bands towards the base of each palp. 

 Fore and mid ungues unequal, the larger uniserrate, the smaller 

 simple ; hind equal and simple. 



Apical segment of abdomen all pale ochreous scaled. 



Length. — 5 ' 8 mm. 



Habitat — India (Capt. James, I.M.S.). 



Observations. — Somewhat resembling Culex fatigans, Wied. 

 but easily told by the more uniform fawn-coloured thorax and the 



