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joim o f antenna invisible owing to retraction, remaining joints dark brown. 
Falpi with dark brown scales except at the tips where there a few <r r ev 
SC jjf , • j Sal . , and a P lcal thirds of the proboscis clad with dark brown 
middle third with creamy scales. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes deep brown with silvery scales above and 
golden ones below.. Mesonotum when denuded, shews a broad band dark 
purple in colour with a brown band on either side of this and dark purple 
margin; the anterior three-fourths is thickly covered with silvery crescentic 
scales, the posterior fourth with silvery scales in the centre surrounding a 
bare space in front of the scutellum and dark brown scales outside these and 
over the wing roots. Wings clad with very dark brown median and 
lighter brown lateral linear scales ; the median scales on all veins after the 
second are very large somewhat piriform in shape and project outward 
more like lateral scales so that under a hand lens the wing shews a number 
of dark brown lines giving it a very unusual appearance ; base of the first 
fork cell nearer base of the wing than that of the second its stem less than 
a third the length of the cell; median cross vein placed to the apical side 
of the supernumerary, posterior cross vein about two and half times its own 
ength from the median ; pleurae with dark brown spots with patches of while 
scales.. Fore and mid lemora dark brown, hind femora silvery except ai 
the apices, remainder of all legs with dark brown scales with broad creamv 
basal bands on the first three tarsal joints of all legs and on the metatarsal 
joints of the hind legs. 
Abdomen. Clad with dark brown scales with a triangular patch of 
dirty white scales at the base of each segment except the last. 
Occur)ence. Described from one female taken in a bungalow in Kuala 
Lumpur. 
Remarks. A very distinct species easily recognized by the peculiar 
scaling of the wing as no other Malayan banded-proboscis Culex has a 
wmg at all resembling it. The small brown spot on either side of the head 
m the lateral patch of white is also very characteristic. 
Culex Sepositus. n. sp. 
Head thickly clad with flaxen scales. Thorax densely clad as far as the 
bases of the wings with pale flaxen scales which in some lights appear 
coppery, a tuft of long dark brown scales over each wing root and black 
scales posteriorly with a line of golden scales surrounding the bare space 
in front of the scutellum. Proboscis with a creamy band in breadth about 
quarter the total length and two-thirds of the band lying to the apical side 
of the middle point.. Femora and tibiae mottled with creamy scales. Tarsal 
bands on all legs involving both sides of the joint. On the hind legs 
there is a well-marked band at the base of the metatarsi. 
Female Head .— Deep brown to black, upper surface clad with golden 
crescentic and numerous white upright scales; on either side is a patch of 
white spatulate scales inserted amongst which are deep brown upright 
scales which extend on to the occiput behind the white upright scales. 
Basal antennal joint ochraceous with a few "white elliptical scales on its 
inner face, remaining joints dark brown with dark brown verticils. 
Palpi clad with dark brown scales. Proboscis with dark brown scales 
