CrSTlUS Culex. 
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97. Culex ochraceus. n. sp. 
(Fig. 106, PI. XXVII.) 
Thorax deep blackish-brown, with scattered golden scales at 
the sides of the mesonotum and two more or less distinct golden- 
scaled parallel lines. Abdomen densely clothed with pale 
ochraceous scales, the segments with dark lateral patches in the 
form of elongated triangles; venter densely ochraceous scaled. 
Legs ochraceous, with brown scales above in places, the femora 
pallid beneath; apices of the tibiae, metatarsi, and first tarsal 
black; knee spot present. Female ungues all equal, black, uni- 
serrated. Wings yellowish, with ochraceous and black scales. 
$ . Head brown, clothed with narrow curved golden scales 
on the occiput; laterally with first flat black scales, then flat pale 
and then deep ochraceous ones, numerous upright forked ones 
on the occiput, black at the nape, golden-brown in front; eyes 
deep purplish-black, surrounded with a narrow row of small 
pale creamy curved scales; clypeus dark brown; palpi bright 
ochraceous, covered with deep brown scales and a few scattered 
grey and white ones, very bristly, bristles black; the small 
mammillated fifth joint is dark in denuded specimens; antennae 
with the basal joint ferruginous, and also the next five joints, 
remainder dark brown; proboscis deep ochraceous-black at the 
apex and with a few dark scales beneath at the base, with 
numerous small black bristles. 
Thorax deep umber-brown to almost black, with hair-like 
curved bright golden scales, thickest at the sides of the raeso- 
notum and particularly forming two parallel lateral golden lines; 
scutellum pale brown, with similar golden scales and golden- 
brown border-bristles; metanotum deep brown to black ; pleurae 
deep brown, with two patches of small fine golden scales above, 
broader and larger, creamy ones below. 
Abdomen densely clothed with bright pale ochraceous scales, 
each segment with lateral black-scaled patches, which expand 
apically and are pointed basally; venter with dense ochraceous 
scales. 
Legs with the coxae ochraceous, with numerous pale scales; 
femora pale ochraceous at the base and beneath, covered more or 
less closely above with brown scales and with long brown bristles; 
tibiae ochraceous, spotted with brown scales above and with dark 
bristles; metatarsi ochraceous, deep brown scaled above, dark at 
