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golden scales and mid lobe with six or seven dark brown bristles. Under a 
hand lens the anterior two-thirds of the mesonotum is rich coppery-bronze 
with a dark brown central line. There is no marginal line of pale scales. 
Pleura.* light yellowish-brown with dark brown spots and these are covered 
with white scales. Wings clad with brown scales, the median scales bein» 
very dark and those on the first, third, fifth and sixth veins under a hand 
lens \ ery conspicuous. The lateral scales are linear, but towards the apices 
of the veins narrowly clavate, while the median scales are distinctly clavate 
and on some of the veins project outwards like lateral scales; first fork cell 
longer and narrower than the second, its base distinctly nearer the winp 
base, its stem about quarter the length of the cell; posterior cross about 
two and a half times its own length from the posterior. Coxae of fore and 
mid legs brown, of hind legs creamy; femora creamy beneath, dark 
brown above ; tibiae blackish-brown with creamy apices ; metatarsus and 
hist two tarsal joints of fore and mid legs minutely banded, in the hind le° r s 
this banding is hardly evident. 
Abdomen . Blackish-brown with narrow dingy-white basal bands and 
golden fringes on the tree edge of segments; on the apical segments there 
are small white lateral spots. On the venter the segments are yellow with 
a few dark scales at the apex of each. 
Male. Antennae banded dark brown and white. Plumes dark olive- 
brown, or steel-grey in some lights. Palpi with one narrow white band on 
the first long joint and a creamy band at the base of the penultimate and 
and ultimate joints. Abdominal bands broader than in the female occupy¬ 
ing nearly one half of the entire segment. Fore and mid ungues unequal 
the larger unguis toothed. Fork cells shorter than in the female; lateral 
scales shorter and more distinctly clavate. 
Occurrence. —Described from a series some bred from larvae taken in 
marshy ground others being adults caught in bungalows. 
Remarks.-. The description of this mosquito corresponds very closely tc 
that of C. Sitiens in I heobald s “Monograph” and I feel sure I am right ir 
regarding it as the same but many of these Culicines are so much alike 
that it is extiemely difficult to identify them from descriptions alone. The 
wing scaling seems, to me to be one of the greatest points of distinction! 
though Theobald gives little notice of the variations. 
Culex Annulus. 
From “A Monograph of the Culicidce of the World A—Theobald. 
Thorax dark brown, with narrow curved pale yellowish scales, nearlyj 
white in front of the wings ; proboscis with a distinct white to creamy band 
in the middle , abdomen dark brown; with basal creamy-white bands ; 
venter, dull yellowish; legs. brown, with narrow basal pale rings to fore 
and mid tarsi, not so clear in the hind legs; ungues of female equal and 
simple.” 
“ Female Head. —Dark brown, with narrow curved creamy-white scales 
on the occiput and venter, flat white ones at the sides and numerous rather 
broad brown upright forked ones behind ; eyes deep purplish-black, with 
silvery reflections and a pale border; antennae dark brown; palpi almost 
