Genus Culex. 
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ring on its basal third, hair-tufts brown; antennae banded 
brown and grey, plumes silky-brown. 
Thorax dull brown, with dull golden-brown curved scales, 
a bare pale patch in front of the scutellum, with a patch of 
black bristles on each side and other black bristles laterally ; 
scutellum pale silvery-grey, with six brown bristles from the 
border of the central lobe and three large and three small from 
each lateral lobe, central lobe with a few pallid golden scales; 
metanotum pale brown; pleurae pale brown, with cinereous 
tomentum, and with a row of small distinct black bristles 
pointing backwards. 
Abdomen covered with deep purplish-black scales and with 
white basal bands, which broaden out laterally, especially on the 
last few segments, dark scaled ventrally, the whole with dense 
lateral and ventral golden-brown hairs. 
Fore legs brown, a yellow spot at the end of the tibiae, the 
last tarsal joint deep ochraceous ; mid legs brown, femora pale 
below; hind legs the same, but with a yellow knee spot; fore 
and mid ungues unequal, the larger one with a large tooth 
curved to the point, the smaller one un- 
toothed, hind ones small and equal. 
Wings with the veins clothed with brown 
scales, with moderately long lateral ones; Fi £- 217 * 
n . , • , n ti.i i i Culex mcisculus. n. sp. 
first sub-marginal cell a little longer and r . ^ j 
,, & „ Wing of d 1 . (X. 9.) 
narrower than the second posterior ceil; 
their bases and stems nearly equal; stem of the former equal to 
more than half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein more 
than twice its length distant from the mid cross-vein. Halteres 
with pale stem and fuscous knob. 
Length, of body, 4*5 to 4*8 mm .; of palpi, 2*5 to 3 mm. 
Makitat. —Freetown, Sierra Leone (Austen, September, 1899 ; 
99. 267). 
Time of capture .—September. 
Observations .—Three ’s and one 9 brought back by 
Mr. Austen and bred by him from larvae from a roadside 
puddle at Wilberforce, Freetown. They might at first sight 
be mistaken for the £ \s of Culex dissimilis, but differ in many 
respects; there is no pale proboscis band, the small ungues of 
the fore and mid legs are simple, and the tooth of the large 
one is curved to the point of the ungues; the basal banding of 
the abdomen is white and expanded laterally, and there are more 
lateral bristles to the scutellum. A single 9 di the collection 
brought back by Mr. Austen is undoubtedly of this species. 
