Genus Culex. 
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Additional localities. —Kel Boad, King William’s Town 
(20. ii. 07), 0. G. H.; Stellenbosch (19 and 20.' i. 07), C. G. H. 
(per C. Lounsbury); Yocoa, Mauritius (D’Emmerez de Charmoy), 
specimen taken by Colonel Peterkin; Philippine Islands (Ludlow); 
Bihe, 24. iii. 05 (on window in house at sunset); Katemas, Bihe„ 
3. ii. 05 (bred from pupa 10 a.m.), found on pool near village 
laying eggs 5 p.m. 2. iv. 05. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex plumosus. Theobald (1901). 
? $ of G. annulioris . Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culic. I., 373 (1901). 
Salisbury, Mashonaland. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex par. Mewstead (1907). 
Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasit, I., No. 1, 25 (1907). 
f Head and thorax grey. Abdomen dark brown; fourth and 
fifth segments with lateral apical spots; venter greyish, dark 
brown basally. Legs brown ; femora and tibiae freckled, the 
former much more so than the latter ; anterior and mid tarsi 
with three narrow pale bands at the articulations. Proboscis 
with a broad median band. 
$. Head with the narrow-curved scales creamy-white; 
upright forked ones pale ochreous, with a few very dark brown 
ones at the sides; flat scales few in number, creamy-white. Palpi 
short, apical segment minute, clothed with dark brown scales. 
Proboscis dark bronzy-brown with a broad median creamy-white 
band ; labella paler. 
Thorax dark brown ; scales chiefly pale ochreous and creamy- 
white with a few black ones intermixed posteriorly and on the 
scutellum, the black ones predominate; there are also indications 
of four small equidistant black spots. 
Abdomen clothed with very dark brown almost black scales ; 
a few isolated dull creamy-white ones on the first and second 
segment, a small lateral apical ■ spot on the third, a large spot on 
the fourth and fifth ; remaining segments rubbed ; venter with 
a pale median line ; last two segments with dull white basal 
bands, very pronounced on the *penultimate segment; the 
remaining basal segments are not sufficiently clear to determine. 
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