Genus Culex . 
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metatarsi and tarsi deep brown to almost black, with dull ochra- 
ceous reflections in some specimens; hind metatarsi a little 
shorter than the hind tibiae; ungues equal, simple, and of 
moderate size. 
Wings longer than the abdomen, the veins clothed with 
brown and purplish-brown scales ; long scales on the whole of the 
second and fourth long veins, also on the third, the upper branch 
of the fifth, and the end of the sixth, as well as on both the 
branches of the fork-cells; the first sub-marginal cell longer and 
slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem short, 
always^ more than one-fourth the length of the cell; the stem of 
the second posterior cell longer than that of the sub-marginal 
cell, but not nearly as long as its fork; the posterior cross-vein a 
little longer than the mid cross-vein, distant from the latter 
always more than its own length, usually about twice its own 
length distant. Halteres ochraceous, slightly fuscous at the top. 
Length .—4 *5 to 5*5 mm. 
$. Head ornamented as in the 9 ) antennae deep umber 
brown, with pale bands and deep brown verticillate hairs ; basal 
joint large, pale ochraceous; palpi deep ochraceous, covered with 
brown scales, with a single pale band towards the basal third, 
longer than the proboscis by the last joint and nearly half the 
penultimate joint, the last joint tapering to a point, just a little 
Tig. 234. 
Culex faligans (tf). (X. 9.) 
(Queensland.) 
Fig. 235. 
Culex fatigans, Wied. 
d genitalia. 
longer than the penultimate joint ; clothed on each side of the 
last two joints with moderately long but scanty dark brown 
hairs, which also exist at the apex of the antepenultimate joint; 
proboscis deep ochraceous, swollen towards the apical end, covered 
with de.ep purplish-brown scales; apex testaceous, sharply 
acuminate. 
Abdomen narrow, covered with brown scales, deep purplish- 
brown to almost black in some specimens, with basal white 
