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Culex invidiosus. Theobald. 
(Kept. Liverpool School Trop. Med. p. xi. App. 1901.) 
Head deep brown, with greyish sheen, seen in some lights ; 
thorax deep chestnut-brown ; abdomen blackish-brown, unbanded 
and unspotted; pleurae paler brown; legs deep brown, coxae 
and bases of femora pale. 
9 . Head deep brown, almost black, covered with dull 
ochraceous grey narrow curved scales over the occiput, black 
upright forked ones and small flat dull white lateral ones, a 
narrow rather indistinct grey border round the eyes, clypeus 
deep chestnut-brown ; proboscis deep blackish-brown : palpi short, 
densely black scaled; antennae brown, basal joint testaceous in 
the centre. 
Thorax brown,' with narrow curved dull golden-brown scales 
and black bristles ; scutellum rather shiny rich brown, with 
narrow curved dull grey and brown scales, six bristles to the mid 
Fig. 308. 
Culex invidiosus. n. sp. 
a, Scutellum ; b, wing of ?. 
lobe and four each to the lateral lobes ; metanotum deep brown; 
pleurae pale ochraceous brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, with slight deep violet reflections; 
narrow ; border-bristles short and pale, apex testaceous, rather 
hairy ; venter brown, hairy, testaceous at the base ; the scales 
at the sides in some lights under the microscope have a dull 
violet grey hue. 
Legs deep brown, with deep violet reflections, coxae pale 
ochraceous, with a number of pale hairs ; venter of femora pale 
ochraceous, tibiae and bases of the metatarsi with a few bristles ; 
ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with typical brown Culex scales, first sub-marginal 
cell longer and a little narrower than the second posterior cell, 
its stem is about one-third the length of the cell, its base nearer 
the base of the wing than that of the second posterior, stem of 
the latter more than one-half the length of the cell • mid cross- 
