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A Monograph of Culiciclae. 
82 . Culex longipes. n. sp. 
Thorax dark chestnut-brown, with curved black scales, more 
or less longitudinal ornamentation and long black bristles; 
pleurae pale brown to grey with long black bristles. Abdomen 
dusky black, unbanded, venter yellowish. Legs long, dark 
brown; coxae and venter of femora pale. Fork-cells of wing 
short. 
9 . Head dark brown, with white borders round the eyes 
formed by silky-white scales, the dark central portion of the 
head with curved black scales and scattered long black upright 
forked ones; six long brown bristles pointing forwards, three on 
each side and two smaller ones in the middle; eyes black and 
silver; palpi dark brown; clypeus chestnut-brown; proboscis 
black, brown at the apex; antennae brown, with brown 
pubescence and verticils, basal joint testaceous. 
Thorax deep chestnut-brown, with curved black scales and a 
few pallid ones and with long black bristles, with more or less 
longitudinal ornamentation; scutellum chestnut-brown, with 
apparently five central bristles and four on each lateral lobe ; 
metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae pale brown to grey, with 
numerous black bristles, above the legs very pallid; sternum 
pallid grey. 
Abdomen entirely covered with deep dusky purplish-black 
scales, the posterior borders of the segments edged with brown (in 
some lights rather golden) hairs; first segment pale ochraceous- 
brown, with numerous long bristles; venter yellowish. 
Legs long, coxae very pale grey, remainder very dark brown, 
except femora, which are pale beneath; ungues equal, very 
small. 
Wings with brown scales; the fork-cells short, the first sub- 
marginal longer, but about the same width as the second 
posterior cell, stem of the former equal to about half the length 
of the cell; stem of the second posterior cell equal to the length 
of the cell ; posterior cross-vein longer than mid cross-vein and 
distant from the latter about twice its own length. 
Halteres with pale brown stem and deep fuscous knob. 
Length .—4 • 3 mm. 
Habitat .—Singapore (R. Hanitsch) (4. 9. 99). 
Time of capture .—July (27th). 
Observations .—A very distinct species with long legs, the 
hind ones reaching 8'5 mm. and the front 7*5 mm. 
