Genus Culex . 
145 
Habitat .—Zomba, British Central Africa (Cray) (83). 
Time of capture. —January (23. 1. 00). 
Observations .—Described from three 9’ s - This is rather an 
obscure species, closely related to Culex pipiens and C. fatigans, 
but I think clearly distinct from both. From C. pipiens it differs 
in the small grey abdominal basal banding and the different 
scale structure of the thorax; from C. fatigans by the much 
greater length of the first sub-marginal cell, which is nearly as 
long as in G. pipiens, and by the hind metatarsi being the same 
length as the hind tibiae. The banding of the abdomen in one 
specimen is only represented by a few grey basal scales, the 
abdomen being very dark. There is also a resemblance to 
C. univittata, but the femoral and tibial spots are not nearly so 
prominent, and orange-yellow instead of pure white. 
117. Culex Reesii. n. sp. 
Head mostly grey scaled; thorax dark brown, with two pale 
parallel stripes when denuded, covered with pale golden scales, 
and with a broad median dark line of deep brown scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, with pale creamy-white basal bands, 
often dull. Legs dark brown, unbanded, except the bases and 
venter of the femora, which are pallid. Venation much as in 
C. pipiens , but the stem of the first sub-marginal cell longer. 
Ungues of 9 equal and simple. 
9 . Head dark brown, with grey curved scales and black 
upright forked ones, pale grey round the eyes; proboscis dark 
brown, pale at the tip ; palpi short, densely black scaled ; antennae 
dark brown, with pale pubescence and dark hairs, slightly 
testaceous at the base; clypeus deep brown. 
Thorax almost black, showing when denuded two paler 
parallel lines; the sides in front covered with pale golden 
narrow curved scales; over the roots of the wdngs the scales 
are curved and hair-like, and more dense than in front, a curved 
dark line apparently separating the two areas; the middle of 
the mesonotum with a broad darker scaled line, the scales 
being more or less bronzy and flatter, and applied more closely 
to the surface; there are also pale grey curved scales in 
front of the scutellum and just over the roots of the wings; 
numerous black bristles, especially over the roots of the wings; 
scutellum deep brown, with narrow pale golden, almost grey 
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