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Mule. Plumes olive-brown. Palpi ochraceous at the apex and with : 
narrow creamy band at base of ultimate and penultimate joints and in th< 
centre of antepenultimate joint. Fore and mid ungues unequal each uncuh 
uni-serrate. b 
Occuvvcnce. Any muddy roadside pool or pool in marshy ground. 
Remarks. A very distinct culex and the only Malayan species of this 
genus with spotted wings. The male is here described for the first time. 
Culex Microannulatus.— Theobald. 
• H aC k creamy narrow-curved, numerous deep brown 
upright, and lateral patches of white spatulate scales. Proboscis banded. 
1 lesonotum black with pale and dark brown narrow-curved scales and 
creamy scales in tront of the scutellum. Abdomen with well marked white 
basal bands. Legs banded. 
Female Head. Black, a tuft of white narrow-curved scales on th< 
vertex and scattered creamy narrow-curved scales over the whole uppei 
surface and numerous deep brown upright scales ; low down on either side 
is a pate 1 o white spatulate scales. Basal joint of antenna deep ferruginous 
with small scales on its inner face, second joint light yellow except al 
its extreme apex, remaining joints dusky-brown with dark brown verticils 
Clypeus ferruginous. Palpi with blackish-brown scales and a few white 
ones at the apex. Proboscis clad with blackish-brown scales with a broac 
band of creamy-yellow scales, two-thirds of which band lies to the apica 
side of the middle line of the proboscis. ^ 
Iliovax. Prothoracic lobes black with a few creamy scales above and 
dark brown ones below. Mesonotum black with dark and light brown 
scales intermixed and creamy scales in front of the scutellum and over the 
roots of the wings ; lines of dark brown bristles are present and these are 
•especially numerous over the bases of the wings. Scutellum blackish- 
brown with creamy narrow-curved scales and dark brown bristles ten in 
number on the central lobe. Pleurae dark brown with patches of white 
scales. Wings dad with dark brown scales those on the branches of the 
second vein being short clavate scales and on the following veins the 
median scales which are almost piriform project over the lateral scales ; 
irst fork cell longer and narrower than the second, its base nearer the 
apex o the w ing, its stem about half as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein 
rather more than three times its own length from the median. Fore and 
mid coxae brown with white scales, hind creamy ; femora clad with dark 
brown scales mixed with which are numerous white scales giving the 
emora a mottled appearance above and laterally ; beneath, the femora are 
entirely clad with silvery scales ; tibiae dark brown on three sides, and 
silvery on the fourth probably the ventral surface but owing to twisting of 
t e legs in drying it is difficult to say ; apices of femora and tibiae with a 
narrow creamy-yellow band ; base and apex of metatarsi and first two 
tarsal joints of all legs with narrow creamy-yellow bands. Ungues equal 
and simple. Pulvilli well developed. 
Abdomen .—Deep purple-black above, with a well marked white basal 
band to all segments after the first; venter with the basal three-quarter of 
