Genus Culex. 
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5SS5. LEG BANDED ON THE TIBIAE; TARSI UNBAND El). 
63. Culex uniyittatus. n. sp. 
(Fig. 86, PL XXII.) 
Thorax deep brown, with scattered golden curved scales; 
scutellum with three patches of pale, sometimes silvery scales. 
Abdomen brown to purplish-black, with more or less basal white 
banding, sometimes rather yellowish, and with basal white lateral 
spots; venter with broad white basal bands. Legs brown, with 
small white knee spot and a broad white apical band to the 
hind tibiae, a smaller one on the fore and mid tibiae. Ungues 
of the $ equal, simple; in the $ those of the fore and the mid 
are unequal, both uniserrated. 
9 • Head brown, with creamy-coloured curved scales in the 
middle and upright brown and black forked scales, a median 
bare line, sides with flat white scales, a few golden bristles 
projecting forwards between the eyes, and a pale border round 
the eyes; some specimens show a dark scaled area of flat scales 
on each side ; antennae brown, basal joint and base of the second 
joint bright testaceous, basal joint darker inside ; palpi black 
scaled, with a few grey ones; proboscis brown black at the tip ; 
eyes deep brownish-purple. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with scattered golden curved 
scales, which seem brown in some lights, and with brown bristles 
over the roots of the wings; scutellum deep brown, with short 
curved pale creamy scales; metathorax chestnut-brown; pleurae 
umber-brown, with small patches of white scales; the thorax 
shows two pale longitudinal lines when denuded. 
Abdomen covered with deep purplish-black to brown scales, 
the second segment with a patch of white scales in the middle of 
its base, the third and fourth with irregular basal bands of white 
scales, the fifth and sixth with a few white scales at the base, 
each segment with a basal white lateral spot, triangular in form ; 
venter with broad basal white bands. 
Legs with unbanded tarsi; femora ochraceous, with dark 
brown scales above, and which become black near the apex, 
knee spot clear yellow, the under surface of the hind femora 
grey; tibiae dark brown, with a white apical hand, small in the 
fore and mid legs, very conspicuous in the hind; metatarsi and 
