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A Monograph of Culicidae. 
115. CULEX RESTUANS. 
11 . sp. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with golden-brown curved 
scales and two round pale spots on the mesonotum and a patch 
of pale scales just in front of the root of the wings, and paler 
scales around the bare space in front of the scutellum. Abdomen 
dusky brown, with basal bands of yellow and pure-white lateral 
spots. Legs bronzy-brown to black, except coxae, bases and 
venter of femora, which are very pale, and also a yellow knee 
spot. Ungues of the 9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head black, with numerous pale creamy curved scales 
and black upright forked ones, with flat white scales at the 
sides of the head; palpi black, greyish at the tip; antennae 
with the basal joint and base of the second 
joint testaceous, remainder blackish-brown, 
with pale pubescence; clypeus and proboscis 
brown. 
Thorax bright chestnut-brown, with short 
bright golden-brown curved scales and two 
round spots on the mesonotum of pale creamy 
scales, the bare patch in front of the scu- 
^ tellum surrounded by almost white scales, and 
another patch on each side just in front of 
the wing roots, three rows of black bristles, 
the median one ending in front of the bare 
patch in front of the scutellum; scutellum 
pale; metanotum ochraceous-brown; pleurae pale testaceous, 
with four patches of white scales. 
Abdomen ochraceous, covered with dusky-brown scales, the 
bases of the segments having a band of creamy-yellow scales, 
with a pure-white spot on each side of the segments; first 
segment ochraceous, with two median tufts of blackish scales 
and long golden hairs; second segment with the white scales 
forming a median line half across the segment; the abdomen 
densely clothed laterally with pale golden hairs. 
Legs with the coxae, bases, and under-sides of the femora 
almost white, remainder deep bronzy-brown to almost black, 
there being, however, a very distinct yellowish knee spot; claws 
equal and simple. 
"Wings almost exactly as in C. pipiens. Halteres with pale 
ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length .—6 mm. 
Fig. 230. 
Thorax of Culex res- 
tuans. n. sp. 
