Genus Culex. 
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brown, with a few scattered pale scales and creamy basal bands, 1 
a central line of pale yellow scales and pure-white lateral spots. 
Ungues equal and uniserrated in the 9 • 
9. Head brown, with pale yellowish curved scales in the 
middle, upright pale forked ones and ochraceous flat ones at the 
sides; antennae brown, basal joint bright ferruginous, basal and 
next few following joints with creamy scales; palpi yellowish- 
brown, with brown and dull creamy scales, especially at the 
apex ; proboscis brown, darker towards the tip. 
Thorax brown, densely clothed with bright reddish-tawny 
curved scales and pale creamy scales forming a line in front and 
two others running down the dorsum of the mesothorax; the 
scales in front of the scutellum are also rather paler; scutellum 
bright ochraceous brown, with pale curved creamy scales and 
golden-brown border-bristles, which are especially thick on the 
lateral lobes; metanotum brown; pleurae brown, with numerous 
creamy scales. 
Abdomen covered with rich brown scales with a few pale 
ones scattered about, each segment with a basal creamy band 
rather narrowed towards the sides, and with almost white lateral 
spots; a central line of pale yellow scales runs down the whole 
length of the abdomen; the first segment has two patches of 
white scales and numerous pale hairs, the posterior borders with 
pale hairs also ; venter with many white scattered scales. 
Legs with the coxae brown with pale scales; femora 
yellowish-brown with black and yellow scales, the black thickest 
near the apex, tibiae also deep yellowish-brown with numerous 
scattered black scales which seem especially thick above; apex 
yellowish-white and also the knee spots; both femora and tibiae 
with numerous black bristles; fore metatarsi and tarsi dark 
brown; the mid and the hind ones are deep brown, with 
narrow apical and basal yellow bands, the bands thus involving 
both sides of the joints, last joint of the mid and hind legs dark 
brown; fore, mid and hind ungues equal and uniserrated. 
Wings with the brown veins with brown and grey scales, the 
lateral ones on the second, third and fourth long veins very long 
and thin ; both fork-cells rather short, the first sub-marginal only 
a little longer and narrower than the second posterior, its stem 
equal to rather more than half the length of the cell, its base 
rather nearer the apex of the wing than that of the second 
posterior ; stem of the second posterior about equal to two-thirds 
the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about the length of 
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