Genus Culex. 
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84. Culex luteolateralis. n. sp. 
(Fig. 108, PI. XXVII.) 
Thorax deep purplish-black, with a broad lateral yellow to 
orange line on each side, the darker median portion with dull 
yellow and brown scales. Abdomen deep brown, with basal, 
creamy-yellow bands. Wings in the 9 with yellow and brown 
scaled veins. 
9 . Head dark brown, with narrow curved golden-yellow 
scales in the middle, flat ochraceous and dusky ones at the 
sides, with a few dull upright forked ones, and a tuft of 
golden bristles projecting between the eyes; eyes large, black 
and silvery ; palpi orange scaled at the base, black at the 
apices; antennae brown, basal joint and the second joint testa¬ 
ceous, the second joint rather swollen; proboscis almost black ; 
clypeus black. 
Thorax deep black, with broad line of bright orange-yellow 
scales on each side of the mesonotum ; the dark central portion 
has also a few scattered golden scales amongst the narrow, dull 
brown ones, especially in the middle of the dorsum ; black 
bristles just before the root of the wings, and golden ones over 
the roots; scutellum black, with a few narrow pale golden 
curved scales and pale border-bristles ; metanotum deep purplish- 
black ; pleurae dark brown, with a few pale scales and dark 
bristles. 
Abdomen black, covered with dusky-black scales and with 
basal bands of dull creamy-yellow scales, the first segment with 
pale median scales; posterior borders of the segments with pale 
golden border-bristles ; there are also small lateral basal pale 
spots; venter dusky. 
Legs dull ochraceous, covered with brown scales, the ground 
colour showing in the femora, especially at the bases and on the 
under sides ; femora, tibiae and metatarsi spiny, the hind metatarsi 
not quite as long as the hind tibiae; femora rather swollen ; fore 
and mid ungues equal, uniserrated; hind equal and simple, 
nearly straight. 
Wings with the veins clothed with black and yellow scales as 
follows : black scales on the costal border on all the third long 
vein, on the branches of the fourth and to some extent on the 
sixth long vein, the remainder mostly dull yellow scaled, with a 
few darker ones on the veins in places; fringe dusky, also the 
