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the middle; eyes black; clypeus chestnut-brown, bluntly trun¬ 
cate ; antennae brown, with pale pubescence and dusky verticils, 
basal joint and base of the second joint bright yellowish-brown ; 
palpi black, with black bristles; proboscis black, slightly pale at 
the tip. 
Fig. 175. 
Head of Culex uncus, n. sp. 
a, Clypeus. 
Thorax chestnut-brown, with scattered curved tawny and 
black scales, a few pale ones at the sides, and with two median 
rows of bristles and dense lateral ones towards the posterior 
of the mesothorax; scutellum steel-black, darkest towards the 
edge, with black bristles; metanotum light brown, with a 
purplish tinge beneath the scutellum; pleurae chestnut-brown, 
with patches of white and pale ochraceous scales. 
Abdomen covered with blackish-brown scales, which show 
purple reflections in some lights, with deep ochraceous ground 
colour where partly denuded; posterior borders of the segments 
with longish bristles; first segment ochraceous, with two diffuse 
patches of purple-brown scales; laterally each segment has a 
patch of white scales basally situated, but extending in some 
nearly across the segments; venter banded with white scales. 
Legs black throughout, except the ventral sides of the 
femora, which are pale scaled. 
Wings brown scaled ; first sub-marginal cell a little longer 
and scarcely narrower than the second posterior cell; stem of 
the latter longer than the cell ; posterior cross-vein distant from 
the mid cross-vein about its own length. Halteres pale, with 
dusky hook-shaped knob. 
Length .—4 mm. 
Time of capture. —September. 
Habitat .—Selangor (Butler, 28, 10, 1899). 
Observations .—Described from two 9’ s taken by Mr. Butler 
amongst plantains in Klang jungle. Easily identified by the 
blunt broad clypeus. 
