

Germs Microculex. 1-0 I 



Genus MICROCULEX. nov. gen. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with scales as in Culex. 



Wings with the outer costal border spinose as in Uranotaenia, 

 venation as in Culex, scales very similar, but on the fifth long 

 vein and on stem and lower branch of fork are a double row of 

 long broadish median scales, and long thin median ones on the 

 lower part of the sixth. 



The male palpi are bluntly acuminate, very thin, no hair-tufts, 

 but have a few hairs on the penultimate segment. Genitalia 

 with short claspers with long clavate terminal segment. The 

 tooth of the larger fore and mid ungues large, curved and placed 

 at the side of the large claw. 



This genus comes very near Culex, but can at once be told by 

 the wing scales and the male palpi and claspers. 



Microculex argenteoumbrosus. n. sp. 



Head silvery grey ; proboscis unhanded. Thorax rich brown 

 in the middle, silvery at the sides, in front and behind. 

 Abdomen deep brown, with small basal white median and lateral 

 spots. Hind legs with pronounced white basal bands, just traces 

 on the fore and mid legs. Male palpi deep brown, acuminate 

 with three prominent white bands ; no hair-tufts. 



9 . Head deep brown, almost black, clothed with rather 

 long narrow-curved silvery grey scales and flat similar coloured 

 lateral ones, some ochreous upright forked scales behind, the 

 whole head somewhat ragged. Palpi, proboscis and antennae 

 deep brown. 



Thorax black, clothed in the middle with small, narrow- 

 curved bright bronzy-brown scales, around this area larger silvery 

 white scales forming a broad area in front, also at the sides and 

 just before the scutellum, where they surround the bare space ; 

 scutellum brown, with silvery-grey narrow-curved scales ; four 

 black bristles to the posterior border of the mid lobe and 

 numerous long ones over the roots of the wings; metanotum 

 deep brown ; pleurae pale brown and grey. 



Abdomen deep blackish-brown, with a small median basal 

 pale spot and white lateral basal spots ; posterior border-bristles 

 rather pale, short, but a long one on each side; venter with 

 broad basal white bands. 



Legs deep brown ; coxae and femora at base and beneath 



