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ONTHREE NEW SPECIES OF CULEX COL¬ 
LECTED DURING THE ANTI-MALARIAL 
CAMPAIGN IN MAURITIUS IN 1908* 
BV 
d’EMMEREZ de CHARMOY 
(WITH ONE plate) 
{Received for publication 12 April, 1908) 
Culex arboricollis, n. sp. 
Male. — Head: eyes greenish ; occiput yellowish, with long, white 
and yellow, curved scales and a few hair-like black scales ; the 
yellow scales are placed closely in the line separating the eyes. The 
antennae bear long hairs which are pale yellowish apically and 
greyish-black basally; the segments of the basal half furnished with 
very long, narrow curved scales; \ apical segment with a few short 
hairs; the basal segment with short, flat, white scales. Palpi of four 
segments, as long as the proboscis, with narrow white bands at the 
base and the apex of the second, third and fourth segments; white 
scales are desseminated over all the segments. Proboscis black, with 
the apex paler and a yellowish band in the middle. 
Thorax black, covered sparsely with long, narrow curved, white 
3nd golden scales, and long, black, hair-like scales ; those portions 
of the thorax which are not covered with scales form velvet black 
spots. Scutellum bordered with flat whitish scales, and dark hair¬ 
like scales; metanotum nude, black. 
Abdomen velvety black, with whitish basal bands ; apical segment 
with a few whitish scales at apex ; all the segments with long 
yellowish marginal hairs. 
Tegs black, with more or less loosely scattered, yellowish scales , 
the articulations of the femora and tibiae are basally and apically 
banded ; the tarsi are black without any coloured scales; metatarsi 
of front legs are basally banded ; the other tarsal segments are black , 
in the mid leg the metatarsi and the first tarsal se gments are basally 
* Durinc Expedition of Professor Koss, F.R.S.. C.B. 
t This remarkable insect bears some resemblance to Theobald s 
though it is quite <listinct. and a new genus will probably be 
't- N’ewstead. 
genus Lophoceraiomyia, 
erected to receive it.— 
