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Culex viridis, Theobald 
Localities: —Boma; Wathen ; Leopoldville (Dec., 1903) , Coquil 
hatville ; Miambwe ; Kasongo (Jan.) ; Lusambo. 
Circumstances of capture : — Imagines were caught during the d. 
in the bush, in the mosquito nets covering the beds of " boys" in 
houses of Europeans and Africans, and in the state rooms of a 
steamer on the Upper Congo. 
Breeding places: -Larvae and pupae were taken from among the 
grass along the edges of rivers, in swamps, in dirty, foul smelling 
collections of water, such as pools used for steeping manioc* and in 
wa ei collected in old tins. Imagines were reared from these 
have-T^^T'' ThiS mOSquit0 has U *‘'" « 5 peatedl> observed to 
have a distinctly green colour during life. 
Cnlex laurenti, n. sp. (Newstead) 
brown ad Center XT if™*' ab , domen P al « i 'eg* uniformly pale 
unhanded. P ei.rae, pale, dull orange-brown; 
■n rfr^:: h trrr* . . 
black. Antennae dark brown T 1 " m<? : upnKl " fotked one* all 
with a faint yehow Unee " P ,„ “ -'very-grey, so ,nc lights 
towards the apex a few scaX ” ? ^° thed W1,h bro «n scales, and 
sb ° r t' -eh ochreou3 ° nps «■> 
golden-yellow; pleurae with a few * n°" n ' 7/torac “ scales dull 
Whlte scales, some of which are l , T , ° f narrow «v-rounded 
uniformly pale brown. Legs umfo ' 1 U SpnU,k% sh ' , » ,r,i ' • 
-a.es, silvery-grey beneaX TZZZZ* 
[' C1 ro ' v nish-yello w with dark brown l* * ’ COXi,e an<i trochantae 
ban f to tarsi. br ° Wn SCaI ^ ! no knee spots and no 
Male .—Head sc 1 
b ZT/ lth Pale bro ^n S scales aptd‘ ***** *° ng * P ale ochreous 
al the Slde s, posteriorly.' i , l '' U<1 1111,1 femora wil 
°»ien pale brown with 
