Genus Culex. 



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chaetae and in the relative length of the fork-cells and their 

 stems. 



Culex spinosus. n. sp. (Lutz, ms.). 



Thorax and abdomen brown, the latter densely clothed with 

 pale hairs ; head very pale. Palpi of male, proboscis, antennae 

 and legs brown. 



£ . Head brown, clothed with long narrow-curved pale 

 creamy scales and pale upright forked scales, small flat dusky 

 grey and creamy lateral scales ; proboscis deep brown ; palpi 

 deep brown, longer than the proboscis, the last two segments 

 and the apex of the ante-penultimate with deep brown hair-tufts ; 

 antennae grey, banded with brown, dense brown plume-hairs. 



Fig. 201. 



Male genitalia of Culex spinosus. Lutz. 



a, Clasper ; b, end of harpes. 



Thorax deep brown, with very thin narrow-curved pale golden 

 scales and pale golden hairs ; scutellum adorned the same ; 

 metanotum deep brown ; pleurae brown. 



Abdomen semi-translucent, brown, with brown scales, un- 

 handed, the integument of the segments divided by darker lines, 

 densely hairy, hairs pale golden-brown. 



Legs brown, unhanded, densely spiny on all parts ; fore and 

 mid ungues unequal, both uniserrate, hind equal and uniserrate. 



Wings with the fork-cells short, the first a little longer and 

 much narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex of the 

 wing, its stem nearly as long as the cell, stem of the broad second 

 fork-cell longer than the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than 

 the mid, about its own length distant from it. 



