Genus Culex , 
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in the middle, dark at the sides; metanotum chestnut-brown 
with a dull purplish tinge ; pleurae chestnut-brown, with patches 
of white scales. 
Abdomen with the segments covered with deep blackish- 
brown scales, ground colour testaceous, this colour showing 
through the bases of the segments to a slight extent; down the 
middle of the abdomen runs a line of ochraceous scales, which 
are thickest at the bases of the segments, and which become 
lighter and spread out over the whole of the last segment; in 
some specimens these ochraceous scales are absent; each segment 
has a basal lateral patch of pure white; the hairs on the posterior 
borders pale brown; venter covered with creamy-yellow scales ; 
in some specimens the apical borders of the venter have a 
triangular black patch on each side. 
Legs covered with deep brown scales with a bronzy 
ochraceous reflection in some lights; femora whitish beneath 
nearly to the apex, which is dark, coxae testaceous ; hind meta¬ 
tarsi not quite so long as the hind tibiae; fore and mid ungues 
equal, toothed. 
Wings with the first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its stem equal to about two-thirds 
the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell nearly 
equal to the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about its own 
length distant from the mid cross-vein ; costa, first long vein and 
third long veins blackish ; halteres pale with slightly fuscous knob. 
Length .—4 • 5 to 6 mm. 
4. Antennae pale brownish ochraceous, with dark brown 
bands and brown plume-hairs; proboscis nearly as long as the 
palpi, dark brown; palpi covered with steel-black scales, last 
joint dark, like the rest of the palpus, hairs dark brown. 
Abdominal segments ochraceous at their bases, dark dusky- 
black on the apical half, which is covered with deep, dull, 
purplish-black scales, bases of the segments pale, partly owing 
to the ochraceous ground colour and partly to pale ochraceous 
scales, there are also a few basal white scales ; from the fourth 
to the seventh segments are more or less triangular patches of 
white scales placed laterally and at the base of the segments ; 
the last segment is covered with pale fuscous scales; claspers 
steel black ; posterior border of the segments and the sides with 
long golden hairs. 
Ungues unequal on the fore and mid legs, equal on the hind 
legs, similar to G. serratus. 
