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neck on either side of the middle line a broken line of golden scales forming 
three distinct linear patches a patch on the margin behind each shoulder and 
over each wing. Where the mesonotum joins the scutellum it is ochraceous 
and clad with golden scales. Scutellum ochraceous and clad with dull white 
scales and dark brown bristles. Pleurae smoky with patches of dull white 
scales. Wings long, smoky and clad with short linear scales; fork cells 
relatively short first longer and narrower than the second its base either level 
or a little nearer the base of the wing than that of the second; posterior 
cross vein very near the median being placed a little to the basal side of the 
latter. Legs without bands clad with deep brown and white scales , femora 
silvery beneath and mottled-brown and . white above and laterally; tibiae 
with white scales predominating and scattered brown ones amongst them, 
tarsi entirely brown, metatarsi brown with scattered white scales. Ungues 
equal and simple. Abdomen clad with deep brown scales dorsally on 
segments two-four, segment one with two central spots of black scales hit 
segment with narrow apical band of dull yellow scales, a much broader 
band on the sixth segment and the remaining entirely clad with yellow 
scales. Venter ochraceous. 
Male .—Antennae with brown plumes. Palpi banded black and yellow 
longer than the proboscis by the ultimate and part of penultimate joints. 
Abdomen with larger yellow bands than those of female apical segments 
entirely yellow as in the female. Fore ungues unequal and uni-serrate. 
Occurrence .—Fairly universal in the Malay Peninsula. 1 he larva is found 
in stagnant pools and small tanks containing stable drainage where 
other larvae are present generally those of C. Gelidus and Umformis as few 
other mosquitoes breed in water containing sewage. The larva feeds entirely 
on the larvae of smaller mosquitoes or on its fellow larvae and in shape and 
appearance is similar to the larvae of Toxorhynchites and Ekrinomyia. 
The adult frequents houses. 
Remarks .—A very variable mosquito in respect of its ornamenta¬ 
tion but the conspicuous feature is the yellow scaling at the end of the 
abdomen. The main differences between it and Multimaculosus are 
the presence of yellow scaling at end of abdomen, shorter wing scales and 
much darker scaling of head and thorax. 
Culex Multimaculosus. n. sp. 
Head black with scattered creamy narrow-curved scales and golden- 
brown upright ones above, creamy spatulate and blackish-brown upright 
scales at the sides. Proboscis and palpi clad with black scales. 1 hot j a ^ 
deep blackish-brown, or lighter reddish-brown in some specimens, clad 
with dark and golden-brown scales. Abdomen unbanded. Legs deep 
brown with numerous patches of white scales on femora and tibiae and 
creamy-yellow bands at femoro-tibial and metatarso-tibial articulations. 
Female Head. —Black; the upper surface clad with scattered creamy 
narrow-curved scales and numerous golden-brown upright scales the sides 
with pale yellow spatulate and dark brown upright scales; on the vertex is 
a tuft of golden-brown bristles. Basal joint of antenna dark brown with 
small creamy scales on its inner face, base of second joint pale yellowish 
remaining joints dark brown with dark brown verticils. Palpi clad with 
dark brown scales and a patch of white ones on the inner side at the base 
