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Appendix. 
mesonotum, continuous with those over the wings. Abdomen 
with basal creamy-white bands. Legs with banding involving 
both sides of the joints. 
9 . Head dark brown, with narrow creamy curved scales 
around the eyes. On the back of the occiput and in the middle, 
those between of a more golden-brown hue; the fork scales in 
front (forming a band around the head) bright brown, those 
behind creamy, at the sides of the head are a few small white 
flat scales; the fork scales are very numerous, there is also a 
row of bright brown bristles projecting forwards over the eyes; 
clypeus black ; palpi black scaled, with a few pure white ones up 
one side ; proboscis deep blackish-browm, apex testaceous, and 
with a dull testaceous band on the apical half; antennae deep 
brown. 
Thorax black, covered rather densely with narrow golden- 
brown curved scales, and pale rather broader creamy ones 
I'ig. 302. 
Culex Duttoni. n. sp. 
a, Thorax; b, surface ornamentation of thorax; c. cf palp; 
d, abdominal segment. 
arranged as follows :—-Around the front of the mesothorax 
forming a narrow line, a more or less distinct spot on each side 
about the middle of the mesonotum, a long patch just over the 
roots of the wings, which bend round and pass up again on to 
the mesonotum ; these latter are almost white; scutellum brown, 
with narrow curved pale golden* scales, eight median golden- 
brown border-bristles, with some smaller fine pale golden ones 
over them; metanotum deep brown; pleurae dark brown, with a 
few small patches of vdiite scales. 
Abdomen deep brown, with basal dull creamy-white curved 
bands, and with more or less evident small lateral basal pure 
white spots ; border-bristles rather long, lateral ones also long. 
Legs with the coxae and trochanters ochraceous; femora 
deep brown, almost white beneath, apex white; tibiae brown, 
