CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM- 
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brown, with narrow-curved golden scales, which become paler before the 
scutellum, with brownish bristles over the roots of the wings ; scutellum 
very large, brown, with narrow-curved pale golden scales and brown 
border-bristles ; metanotum pale brown ; pleuræ tawny. When denuded 
the mesothorax shows two dark median lines and a curved one on each 
side. Abdomen deep brown with basal white bands, basal white lateral 
patches and creamy venter. 
Legs brown, pale at the base and on the venter of the femora ; the 
fore legs with narrow yellow T bands to the metatarsi and tarsi, that on 
the last tarsus indistinct or absent ; mid legs with the banding less distinct 
and the hind legs more so ; ungues all equal and simple. 
Wings with typical Culex-scales, the fork-cells long ; the first sub¬ 
marginal considerably longer but no narrower than the second posterior, 
its base nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one third the 
length of the cell, stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; 
posterior cross-vein often nearly twice its own length distant from the 
mid. Halteres dusky. 
Length: 3 mm. 
cT. Palpi deep brown with narrow yellow^ basal bands on the two 
apical segments and with pale areas basally ; hair-tufts dark brown ; the 
dark apical joint acuminate; antennæ brown with broad grey bands 
between the verticils. 
Thorax and abdomen as in the 5 . Fore and mid ungues unequal 
uniserrated, hind equal and simple. 
Length : 3*3 mm. 
Habitat: Bombay (Biró, 1902). 
Observations : Described from 3 j ’s and 3 c? ’s. They are closely 
allied to Culex Vishnui Theob., but can I think at once be told from 
others of the allied species by the much greater length of the first sub¬ 
marginal cell and by the head adornment which resembles that of Culex 
microannulatus Theob. There is however a general different appearance 
and their small size also separates them from the latter. In C. Vishnui 
the first submarginal cell is nearer the apex of the wing than that of 
the second posterior and not nearly as long as in Biro’s specimens from 
Bombay. 
2. Culex impellens Walk. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. IY. 91. Walker: Monogr. Culicid. I. p. 362 (1901) Theobald. 
A single $ from Singapore (Biró, 1898); 
Also recorded from: Perak, Kuala Lumpur; Hoshiarpur, India; N. W. 
Provinces, India ; Ceylon. 
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