Genus Culex. 
01 
Legs brown; coxae pallid ; femora ochraceous, with brown 
scales ; tibiae and tarsi deep brown ; ungues of fore and hind 
legs equal, small and simple. 
Wings rather dusky-brown; the costal border, sub-costal 
and first long veins with dark brown rather broad scales, showing 
violet reflections, remainder of the wings with brown scales of 
typical Culex form ; first sub-marginal cell longer and narrower 
than the second posterior cell, its base a little nearer the base of 
the wing than that of the second posterior cell, about two and 
half times the length of its stem ; stem of the second posterior 
about three-fourths the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein 
about its own length distant from the mid cross-vein, base of the 
wings testaceous. Halteres with a pale stem and deep fuscous knob. 
Length. —3’5 mm. 
£. Head dark brown, with narrow curved grey scales, 
upright thin brown ones and small flat ones round the eyes ; 
I. Male palpus ; II. joints of antenna ; III. male ungues. 
clypeus, palpi and proboscis deep brown; second joint of palpi 
short, about half the length of the apical joint, apical joint with 
