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(d.) Legs neither banded nor spotted, 
(i.) Abdomen banded. 
(2.) Abdomen unbanded. 
(3.) Thorax adorned with golden 
marginal lines. 
* Culex Fatigans. 
Culex Halifaxii. 
Culex Uncus. 
Culex Fuscanus. 
Culex Longipes. 
* Culex Grammis. 
* Culex Uniformis. 
* Culex Minimus. 
* Culex Luteolateralis. 
K.B. —Those species against which a star is placed are described here in detail. 
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Culex Mimeticus.— Noe 1899. 
Head black with creamy narrow-curved scales and golden yertica. 
>ristles. Thorax dark brown with white narrow-curved scales. Costa ol 
ving broken by three, white spots. Proboscis banded. Legs banded. 
Female Head.— Black, upper part clad with white narrow-curved scales 
.nd numerous white upright scales in front and some dark brown ones 
)ehind ; on either side low down is a small patch of white spatulate scales ; 
rertical bristles golden-brown. Basal joint of antenna dark brown viti 
1 few small white scales on its inner face, remaining joints dark brown 
.vith dark brown verticils. Clypeus deep brown. Palpi clad with black 
scales. Proboscis clad with blackish-brown scales except in the middle 
.vhere the scales are creamy and form a band in breadth nearly one-third 
he total length of the proboscis and two-thirds of which lies to the apical 
dde of the middle point of the proboscis. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes almost black clad with creamy narrow- 
;urved scales. Mesonotum dark brown (lighter just in front of the scutel urn) 
dad with white narrow-curved scales and dark brown bristles. Scutellum 
dark brown with white narrow-curved scales especially thick on the centra 
lobe. Pleurae translucent and varying in colour according to the contents 
of thorax, with a patch of silvery scales. \\ ingsclad with dark and creamy- 
white scales the latter forming spots as follows'. three on the costa all 
involving the first long vein one about the middle of the costa one be)ond 
the junction of the subcosta with the costa and one at the apex ; the second, 
third, fourth and upper branch of the fifth long veins are white scaled at 
a point corresponding with the second costal spot and a white band is 
formed right across the wing at this point; the lateral scales are linear the 
median rather broad and clavate ; first fork cell longer than its second, its 
base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem about half the length of the cell ; 
posterior cross vein about three times its own length from the median. 
Coxae colourless. Legs with deep brown scales with creamy bands at a 
[ the articulations except the last two tarsal on fore and mid legs and the 
last on the hind legs. Ungues equal and simple on all legs. 
Abdomen .—With deep brown scales above, with narrow whitish basal 
[(bands; venter white. 
