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pure white ones up one side ; proboscis deep blackish-brown, apex testaceous and with a dull 
testaceous band on the apical half ; antennae deep-brown. Thorax black, covered rather densely 
with narrow golden-brown curved scales, and pale rather broader creamy ones arranged as 
follows : — around the front of the mesothorax, forming a narrow line, a more or less distinct spot 
on each side about the middle of the mesonotum, a long patch just over the roots of the wings, 
which bend round and pass up again on to the mesonotum, these latter are almost white ; 
scutellum brown with narrow curved pale-golden scales, eight median golden-brown border-bristles, 
with some smaller fine pale golden ones over them ; metanotum deep-brown ; pleurae dark-brown 
with a few small patches of white scales. 
Abdomen (el) deep-brown with basal dull creamy-white curved bands, and with more or less 
evident small lateral and basal pure white spots; border-bristles rather long, lateral ones also long. 
Legs with the coxae and trochanters ochraceous ; femora deep-brown, pale, almost white 
beneath, apex white ; tibiae brown, with slightly paler base and apex, and with pale hairs ; 
metatarsi with the apex pale banded, fore tarsi with the first and second joints apically and basally 
pale banded, the third basally banded, the fourth only showing a trace of basal banding. Mid 
tarsi the same as the fore ; hind tarsi also very similar ; ungues small, equal, and simple ; hind 
metatarsi longer than the hind tibiae. 
Wing with typical brown Culex scales ; fork-cells rather long ; first submarginal cell 
longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem 
rather less than one-third the length of the cell ; second posterior cell with its branches slightly 
contracted where they join the wing, its stem rather less than one-half the length of the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres pale 
ochraceous. 
Length. — 4 - 8 to 5 mm. 
$ . Palpi (c) dark-brown, with five white broken bands, last two joints with black hairs ; 
apex of the antepenultimate also slightly hairy, apical joint acuminate | proboscis deep-brown, 
with an indistinct pale band ; antennae dark-brown, with deep-brown plumes, faintly banded 
paler brown ; basal joint deep ferruginous. 
Abdomen narrow, the basal creamy-yellow bands prominent. The last segment with 
creamy-white scales in the middle ; abdomen hairy. Legs banded much as in the 9 ■> but the last 
two tarsi seem to be un banded ; fore ungues unequal and uniserrated ; hind equal, simple and 
small ; wings with the fork-cells very small, first sub-marginal very little longer, not much narrower 
than the second posterior, its base nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second posterior 
cell, its stem slightly longer than the cell, posterior cross-vein about its own length distant from 
the mid cross-vein. 
Length. — 5 mm. 
Habitat. — Duke Town. 
Time of Capture. — April. 
Observations. — Described from a series bred from larvae obtained at Canoes Creek, Duke 
Town. The thoracic ornamentation soon loses its characteristic appearance by denudation, the 
golden scales only remaining ; the tarsal banding involving both sides of some of the joints and 
the faintly-banded proboscis should readily separate it from other African species. The banding 
on the abdomen in the male spreads out laterally in the sixth and seventh segments. The two, 
sometimes three, white bands on the antepenultimate joint of the male palpus are very character- 
istic, the most apical band being very wide. 
