Genus Culex . 
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103. Culex inflictus. n. sp. 
Thorax brown in front, pallid behind, small pale brown 
curved scales on anterior part and three double rows of black 
bristles in front, two behind ; pleurae pallid. Abdomen dusky- 
black, with basal white triangular spots; venter grey. Legs 
black, unbanded, base and venter of femora grey, knee and tibial 
spots orange; fork-cells of wings short. 
$ . Head brown, with pale curved scales and black upright 
forked ones, and a border of white curved scales round the eyes ; 
antennae brown, with pale bands, basal joint large and testa¬ 
ceous, dark on the inside; palpi black scaled, testaceous at the 
base; clypeus chestnut-brown; proboscis dark brown scaled, 
short, a little longer than the antennae; eyes deep purplish- 
black. 
Thorax with the mesothorax brown in front, pallid behind, 
the front with small pale brown curved scales, with three double 
rows of black bristles in front, two rows behind, one on each side 
of the pale area in front of the scutellum, which has small narrow 
pale scales and small dark bristles, long black bristles on each 
side over the roots of the wings; scutellum very pale silvery- 
grey, with small pale curved scales, seven dark brown bristles to 
median lobe, and five large ones to the lateral lobes; pleurae 
pale silvery-grey. 
Abdomen covered with dusky-black scales, the segments with 
basal white triangular spots, and the posterior borders with long- 
pale bristles ; venter with grey scales. 
Legs covered with deep black scales with purplish reflections, 
coxae grey, bases and under-sides of the femora white scaled ; 
knee spot and extreme apex of tibiae orange; ungues very small, 
equal, simple. 
Wings with fork-cell short, the first sub-marginal cell longer 
but no narrower than the second posterior, two and a half times 
the length of the stem, its base nearer the base of the wing than 
the base of the second posterior; stem of the second posterior 
cell a little shorter than the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly 
four times its own length from mid cross-vein. 
Halteres with pale ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length. —4 mm. (hind legs 9 mm.). 
Time of capture. —March. 
Habitat .—Grenada (W. E. Broadway). 
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