Genus Culex. 
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$. Head black, with a bare line down the centre, clothed 
with pale creamy curved scales on each side; flat creamy-white 
ones at the sides, and between these and the curved ones a 
somewhat brownish line; there are also very long brown upright 
forked ones dotted about, and golden-brown hairs projecting 
forwards; clypeus deep brown; antennae banded black, brown, 
a 
e 
Fig. 154. 
Culex morsitans. n. sp. 
a, Wing of £ ; b, head ; c, ungues of ; d, thoracic ornamentation 
of ? ; e, abdominal ornamentation ; f, male palpus. 
and grey, basal joint deep brown, hairs deep brown, flaxen at 
their base; palpi longer than the proboscis by their last joint, 
blackish-brown, with the bases of the last and penultimate joints 
with a narrow yellow band, the preceding with a broad yellow 
band at the apex and a narrow one at its base, and the next with 
a narrow apical yellow band; that is blackish-brown with four 
