Genus Culex . 
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yellow, with black hairs, especially on the penultimate joint, 
where they form a dense black tuft; longer than the proboscis 
by more than their last joint ; proboscis 
dark brown, black towards the base, where 
it is thickly scaled. 
Thorax dark brown, covered with brown 
scales in front and paler ones behind, with 
two median dark lines ; scutellum testa¬ 
ceous ; metanotum pale testaceous ; pleurae 
pale, with a patch of white scales. 
Abdomen ochraceous, with scattered 
dark scales, the fifth, sixth, and seventh 
segments with apical bands of yellow 
scales ; the apex of the abdomen is entirely 
covered with yellow scales ; the fifth, sixth, 
and seventh segments have dark brown 
triangular patches in the middle, the base of the triangles being 
parallel with their posterior borders; borders of segments and 
sides of the abdomen with long fine yellowish hairs. 
Legs unbanded, like the female; ungues testaceous at the 
base, dark brown for the remainder, with a distinct black lateral 
tooth. 
Wings with the posterior cross-vein about one-third of its 
length behind the mid cross-vein ; veins with a slightly 
ochraceous tinge; stems of the two fork-cells about equal 
in length, that of the first sub-marginal a little shorter than 
the cell, that of the second posterior about the same length 
as the cell. 
Another specimen has the abdomen with the deep brown 
scales forming more or less triangular patches and all the 
segments with pale yellowish-scaled posterior borders, except 
the last three, which are chiefly yellow scaled, as in the $ . 
Ventral surface very pale, yellow scaled towards the apex. 
Length. —7 mm.; palpi 4 mm. 
Habitat. —Perak, Straits Settlements (L. Wray) (22. 11. and 
21. 12. 1899); Quilon, Travancore, S. India (James); JS\W. 
Provinces (Giles) ; Pou Chow, China ; Madras (Cornwall) 
(25. 11. 0); Selangor (Butler) (28. 10. 99); Upper Burma 
(Watson) (94. 4.); Mozafferpur, Behar, Bengal (Green) (88); and 
Hong Kong (Rees). 
Time of capture. —August in N. W. Provinces (Giles); August 
in Burma. 
Fig. 203. 
Culex concolor, Desv. 
cf palpus. 
