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Remarks .— I believe this species is entirely sylvan. I cannot find any 
description that would appear to be that of this mosquito and have there¬ 
fore treated it as a new species. In some points notably the scaling of the 
head it resembles members of the genus Lophoceratomyia but the male 
antennae are destitute of any of the peculiar scales present on the Malayan 
members of that genus. 
Culex Uniform is. n. sp. 
Head black with scattered white narrow-curved scales above, white 
spatulate scales at the sides, and dark brown upright scales above and 
laterally. Thorax brown with three dark purple lines and covered with 
pale brown narrow-curved scales, with white ones in front of the scutellum. 
Pleura crossed horizontally by two dark brown lines with a white line 
between covered with white scales. Legs and abdomen blackish-brown 
without bands or spots. 
Female Head.— Black, the upper surface is clad with white narrow- 
curved scales which m the centre are set thickly but are more scattered 
towards the sides, outside these on either side is a patch of white spatulate 
scales, and above and laterally are numerous rows of dark brown upright 
scales. Basal joint of antenna dusky-brown, remaining joints black with 
dark brown verticils. Clypeus deep brown. Palpi with blackish-brown 
scales. Proboscis towards the base clad with dingy-white scales at the 
apex the scales are dark brown and white above; the under surface is pale 
in its whole length. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes almost black with white narrow-curved 
scales. Mesonotum on the anterior margin deep purple and from this 
patch three dark purple lines run backwards to the scutellum the parts 
between being muddy-brow T n becoming paler as the scutellum is approached, 
in front of which the mesonotum is dingy-white. There is a purple patch 
on either side above the wings. The scales on the anterior margin and 
in front of the scutellum are white elsewhere bronzy or tawny. Scutellum 
dingy-white with white narrow'-curved scales. \\ here the pleura meets the 
mesonotum there is a dark brown horizontal line unsealed beneath this is a 
white line covered w r ith white scales and below 7 another dark brown line. 
Wings smoky clad with typical culex-like scales ; first fork cell longer and 
narrower than the second, their bases level, its stem about one-third the 
length of the cell; posterior cross vein about two-and-half times its own length 
from median. Coxse colourless and translucent; fore and mid femora dark- 
brown above silvery beneath ; hind femora almost entirely clad with sil\er\ 
scales; remainder of all legs clad with black scales. Ungues simple and 
i equal. 
Abdomen .—Deep blackish-browm above, white below-; apical segments 
with white patches. 
Occurrence .—Described from two females taken in marshy ground near 
Batu Gajah. 
Remarks .—This species comes very close to Culex Viridis but differs 
as follows : The head is black not brown and the scales on it are pure 
white not grey the upright scales being black and not pale brown. The 
under side of proboscis is pale ; there are eight to ten border bristles on the 
central lobe of scutellum; the metanotum is pale creamy and not browm ; 
