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Male .—Antennae black and white with black verticils. Palpi black scaled 
with a creamy band at base and apex of ultimate, at base of penultimate joint, 
and two creamy bands on the antipenultimate joint, one corresponding in 
position to the band on the proboscis. Abdominal bands much broader 
than in the female. 
Occurrence .—Described from specimens bred from larvae taken from 
paddy swamps near Batu Gajah by Dr. Daniels. 
Remarks .—This is the blackest culex I have seen and I can find no 
description among those with banded proboscis at all corresponding to it. 
Culex Perplexus. n. sp. 
Head black with white margin to the eyes, creamy-yellow scales in the 
centre, at the sides spatulate scales, first dark brown then white. 
Proboscis broadly banded. Thorax with broad white margin, white scales 
round the bare space in front of the scutellum, and bright golden scales 
about the level of junction of anterior and middle thirds, the rest being 
clad with golden-brown scales (under a hand lens these are coppery-bronze). 
Legs banded. Lateral wing scales clavate, median very broad and 
asymmetrical. 
Female Head.— Blackish-brown: along the orbital margins there is a 
line of silvery narrow-curved or lunate scales, in the centre is a broad band 
of creamy-yellow broad curved scales, on either side of these is a large patch 
of blackish-brown spatulate scales followed by a patch of similar scales, 
white in colour. The upright scales are creamy in the middle in front, 
dark brown behind, and at the sides; vertical bristles golden. Basal joint 
of antenna deep blackish-brown without scales, remaining joints deep 
brown with short silvery hairs and dark brown verticillate hairs. Clypeus 
deep brown. Palpi with blackish-brown scales and a few white ones at the 
tip. Proboscis clad with black-brown scales, except in the centre where 
there is a broad creamy-yellow band, in breadth about a quarter the total 
length of the proboscis. The greater part of this band lies beyond the 
middle point of the proboscis. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes deep brown with golden-brown bristles, and 
creamy and dark brown and narrow-curved scales. Mesonotum black in 
the centre, deep brown at the sides, under a hand lens the scaling is as 
follows: A central line of creamy-yellow scales, a broad margin of 
similar scales running round the portion in front of the wings, and spread¬ 
ing transversely inwards these scales form two patches at the level of 
junction of anterior and middle thirds, the portions enclosed by these white 
scales being clad with bright bronzy scales which form a long oval patch 
on either side. The bare space at the root of the scutellum is surrounded 
by silvery scales, and outside these are bright bronze scales. This 
ornamentation is quite distinct under a hand lens but under higher powers 
is not so distinct. The scutellum is muddy-brown each lobe is clad with 
long slightly curved silvery scales. The border bristles are light brown 
and there are six to the central lobe. Pleurae dingy translucent white, with 
white scales. Wings heavily clad ; on the first fork cell the lateral scales are 
clavate, on the third vein, the branches of the fourth and fifth, the lateral clavate 
scales are hidden by the broad almost piriform median scales which project 
on either side of the vein like lateral scales; first fork cell longer and much 
narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex of the wing, its stem 
