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Abdomen unbanded, deep blackish-brown with lateral creamy 
scales, which to some extent form apical spots above ; venter 
with basal creamy bands. 
Legs deep brown, apex of femora with a few yellow scales, 
base of metatarsi and first three tar sals with a narrow yellow band, 
a few pale scales spreading on to the apices of the segments • 
apex of hind tibiae with a number of outstanding small golden 
chaetae, some larger black ones at the apex, and a few pale 
scales ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the fork-cells rather long and narrow, the first 
considerably longer and a little narrower than the second, their 
bases level; stem of the first about one-third the length of the 
cell; stem of the second less than half the length of the cell; 
Eig. 148. 
Wing of Culex pseudoannulioris. 9. n. sp. 
posterior cross-vein longer than the mid, about its own length 
distant from it. 
Length .-—7 • 5 to 8 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —-12. x. 07 ; 8. xi. 07 ; 25. viii. 07 ; 29. ix. 07. 
Observations .—Three 9’s caught in bush at 2 and 6 p.m., one 
in house at 9 p.m. A very pronounced banded proboscis species, 
coming near C. annulioris, Theobald. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex portoricensis. Ludlow (1905). 
Canad. Entomo. XXXVII., 386 (1905), Ludlow. 
“ Head dark, with a narrow median line of ochraceous curved 
scales, light forked scales upon the occiput, and reaching well up 
toward the vertex ; the median curved scales followed by light 
flat scales and a narrow stripe of dark flat scales on the side; 
antennae dark brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal 
