Genus Culex. 
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A single specimen sent, in which the thorax is partly denuded, 
but it can at once be told by its long legs and extremely pale 
thoracic sides and sternum, and its brown thorax and dark 
abdomen, which is unbanded. 
The single specimen sent was taken in a house near 
Singapore. 
83 . Culex Freetownensis. 
n. sp. 
Thorax dark brownish-grey, with long greyish scales, with 
three lines of black bristles. Abdomen deep dusky brown, with 
small lateral patches of white scales on the apical borders of the 
segments ; venter pale, ochraceous when denuded. Legs deep 
brown, with rather a coppery sheen, coxae, bases of the femora 
and their ventral surfaces pale grey; 9 ungues equal and 
simple; fore and mid ungues of the $ unequal, uniserrated, the 
fore nearly straight, the smaller only a little shorter than the 
larger; the mid more unequal, the larger one curved; hind 
ungues equal and simple, small. 
9 • Head brown, with a border of brownish-white scales 
around the eyes, pale scales over the occiput, with numerous 
scattered dark upright forked ones; eyes black and golden; 
proboscis black, slightly paler at the tip ; 
palpi black ; antennae entirely black with 
pale pubescence. 
Thorax dark brownish grey, with 
longish grey scales backwardly directed, 
black 
the 
with two long lateral, rows of 
bristles and a median one ending in 
middle of the metanotum brown; scu- 
tellum with six or seven brown bristles on 
the mid lobe and several on the lateral 
lobes; long black bristles over the roots 
of the wings ; pleurae with patches of 
white scales. 
Abdomen covered with deep dusky- 
brown scales; on the apical borders are 
small lateral patches of white scales; 
the first segment dark brown; venter when denuded ochraceous. 
Legs with the coxae pallid, and also the under surfaces of 
n. sp. 
Fig. 182. 
Culex Freetownensis. 
a, b, c, Ungues of the male 
d, abdominal segments 
e, scutellum. 
the femora and their bases, the remainder of the 
legs 
dark 
