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rather dark brown scales; segments 5, 6, 7 and 8 with a few lateral 
white scales; terminal segment with a broad apical band ol cream)' 
white scales; venter pale ochreous, scales pale brown and white 
intermixed. Wing scales dark brown on the basal half of the veins , 
apical portion with pale ochreous scales. 
Locality: — Leopoldville (Oct. and Dec., 1903). 
Two males and one female only were taken. 
This species is dedicated to the memory of the Botanist, Profcssoi 
Laurent, who died while on an expedition to the Congo Free State 
Culex par, n. sp. (Newstead) 
(PI. i, tig. 11) 
Head and thorax grey. Abdomen dark brown ; fifth and sixth 
segments with lateral pale spots; venter greyish, dark brown bnsally 
Legs brown ; femora and tibia freckled, the former much more so than 
the latter; anterior and mid tarsi with three narrow pale bands at the 
articulations. Proboscis with a broad median band. 
FEMALE. — Head with the narrow-curved scales creamy-white . 
upright-forked ones pale ochreous, with a few very dark brown ones 
at the sides; flat scales few' in number, creamy white. Antennae 
wanting. Palpi short; apical segment minute, clothed with dark 
brown scales. Proboscis dark bronzy-brown with a broad median 
creamy-white band ; labella paler. Thorax dark brown ; scales chief!) 
pale ochreous and creamy-white with a few' black ones intermixed 
posteriorly and on the scutellum, the black ones predominate. 
there are also indications of four small equidistant black spots 
Abdomen clothed with very dark brown almost black scales; a few 
isolated dull creamy-white ones on the first and second segment, a 
small lateral apical spot on the third, a large spot on the fourth and 
fifth ; remaining segments rubbed; venter with a median pale 
line; last two segments with dull white basal bands, very 
pronounced on the penultimate segment; the remaining basal 
segments are not sufficiently clear to determine. Legs uniformly pale 
browm or ochreous-brown ; knee spots faintly indicated; femora and 
tibiae with pale freckles; articulations of front and middle tarsi with 
three narrow pale bands; hind tibiae somewhat paler than the rest 
Wings with pale and somewhat metallic-brown scales; fork cells 
