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Legs uniformly pale brown or ochreous-brown ; knee spots 
faintly indicated; femora and tibiae with pale freckles; articu¬ 
lations of front and middle tarsi with three narrow pale bands ; 
hind tibiae somewhat paler than the rest. 
Wings with pale and somewhat metallic-brown scales; fork- 
cells with their bases almost opposite; posterior cross-vein about 
one and a fourth times its length from the mid. 
Habitat. —Tshumbri, Congo Free State. 
Observations .—Described from one 9 taken July 5. Allied to 
C. thallasius, Theobald, but differs in the absence of abdominal 
bands, the broader band to the proboscis, the predominating pale 
upright forked scales of the head, and also in the colour of the 
thoracic scales.” 
Type in the collection of the School of Tropical Medicine, 
Liverpool. 
Culex dissimilis. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. I., 376 (1901). 
Freetown, Sierra Leone. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex salsus. Theobald (1909). 
Third Rep. Gord. Coll., p. 258 (1909), Theobald. 
Thorax deep brown clothed with rather scanty pale dull 
creamy scales, somewhat lighter in places; pleurae clear white. 
Head with similar scales to the thorax ; proboscis black with a 
prominent whitish median band. Abdomen deep blackish-brown 
with broad basal white bands with dark scales here and there 
giving a mottled appearance. Legs with narrow apical and basal 
pale banding. 
9. Head deep brown with narrow-curved pale creamy 
scales; flat creamy lateral ones and six short pale bristles 
projecting forwards; antennae black, basal lobes deep blackish- 
brown ; clypeus black; proboscis- black with a broad pale 
creamy-white to white median band ; eyes silvery. 
Thorax deep brown with rather scanty pale dull creamy 
scales, somewhat darker in two patches in front, and paler in 
front of the roots of the wings ; chaetae apparently scanty, deep 
brown ; scutellum brown with narrow pale scales and six brown 
posterior border-bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum brown with 
