Genus Culex. 
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brown bristles projecting between them; clypeus, palpi and 
proboscis brown, the last two with brown scales and metallic 
reflections; antennae brown, second joint rather ferruginous. 
Thorax black, the anterior half clothed with long silky 
creamy curved hair-like scales, the posterior half with similar 
scales only bright rich brown ’ scutellum ochraceous-brown; 
the mid lobe with four black border-bristles ; the lateral lobes 
with six large and a few small bristles; scales on the scutellum 
small, curved and pale ; metanotum deep brown; pleurae black, 
with some brilliant white scales. 
Abdomen brown, ochraceous at the base, clothed with 
metallic purple scales, with dusky hairs which become golden at 
the apex ; first segment ochraceous with dusky median scales. 
Legs deep brown; ochraceous-yellow at the base and on the 
base and venter of the femora, with an ochraceous tinge in some 
lights along the whole length of the legs ; ungues of the fore and 
mid legs equal, long, simple, nearly straight, of the hind legs 
equal, small and curved. 
Wings with rather long median scales to the veins and long 
thick lateral ones ending convexly ; 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 latter, its stem 
not quite half the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior 
cell half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein about twice 
its own length distant from the mid cross-vein ; fringe brown, 
border-scales long, dark brown ; halteres with a deep ochraceous 
brown stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —4'5 to 4*8 mm. 
£. Palpi dark brown, with the trace of a pale band towards 
the base, penultimate joint a little longer than the apical joint, 
both with long thick black bristle-like hairs on one side, apex of 
the long antepenultimate joint swollen, also with black bristles ; 
antennae banded brown and white, the white bands very broad ; 
penultimate joint long, thin, only slightly pubescent; proboscis 
deep brown. 
Thorax like the 9 > only the pale scales in front are golden 
instead of silvery white. 
Abdomen ochraceous with brilliant purple scales; genitalia 
brown, the claspers swollen towards the apical half, dark brown; 
ungues of the fore leg black, unequal, the larger one uniserrated 
at the base; hind ungues equal and simple. 
Length .—4 mm. 
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