Genus Culex . 
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68. Culex serratus. n. sp. 
(Fig. 95, PI. XXIV.) 
Thorax dark brown, with a broad stripe of creamy-grey in 
the middle. Abdomen brownish-black, with basal white lateral 
spots, especially noticeable on the apical segments. Ungues of 
9 equal, uniserrated; of 4 unequal in fore and mid legs, the 
larger one with two teeth, the smaller with one tooth. 
9 . Head brown, clothed with white scales in front and in 
the middle, brown above and white at the sides, with a few 
upright yellow forked scales; eyes purple, bordered with a 
narrow edge of white; antennae brown, first joint and base of 
the second testaceous, with a few fuscous scales, the remaining 
joints clothed with a pale pubescence 
and with black verticillate hairs ; palpi 
black, with a few dark grey scales; 
proboscis black. 
Thorax dark brown, with a broad 
stripe of creamy-grey scales in the 
middle, extending from and continuous 
with the white in the middle of the 
head and passing back to the scutellum ; 
sides of the mesonotum clothed with 
dark curved scales, and with golden 
hairs at the sides and back ; scutellum 
brown, with white scales in the middle 
and black laterally; metanoturn chest- ^ 
nut-brown; pleurae testaceous, with 
patches of white scales. 
Abdomen covered with dark brown¬ 
ish-black scales, with purplish reflec¬ 
tions, the deep yellow ground colour 
showing through at the base in some 
specimens, giving 
banded appearance, 
Fig. 167. 
Culex serratus. n. sp. 
an almost basallv- 3 Head , and thorax ; b > ungues 
. J (fore and hind of <jT ; fore of ?). 
which in other 
specimens is absent; laterally there is a basal silvery-white spot, 
which partly shows on the dorsum, in some specimens most 
clearly on the last few apical segments ; first segment ochraceous, 
with a patch of purple scales in the middle, and very pilose ; 
posterior borders of the segments edged with long pale hairs ; 
venter almost entirely clothed with white scales. 
