Genus Culex. 
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Culex pseudostenoetrus. nov. sp. 
Head golden-brown with lateral black and white spots; palpi 
black ; proboscis black. Thorax rich brown with paler, almost 
golden, scales in the mid line in front two pale median spots, 
some in front of the roots of the wings and some behind. 
Abdomen black with a white basal median area on the second 
segment, basal white bands on the third to sixth and the sixth 
and seventh with apical yellow bands, the last three segments 
with median pale lateral spots. Legs black with basal pale 
bands. 
9 . Head black with narrow-curved pale golden to almost 
creamy scales, much smaller and more golden brown in front 
between the eyes, deep brown almost black upright forked 
scales, flat black scales at the sides with a median white 
patch, deep brown chaetae form an inwardly projecting row 
on each side over the eyes; pale golden chaetae between the 
eyes; palpi and proboscis black; antennae deep brown, basal 
segments paler, the basal one with some small flat pale creamy 
scales. 
Thorax deep rich brown, clothed with small curved golden- 
brown to bronzy scales, and with somewhat paler scales in the 
mid region in front, two paler scaled median spots, some paler 
scales along the sides most prominent before the base of the 
wings and paler ones before and on each side of the bare space in 
front of the scutellum; chaetae deep brown; scutellum brown 
with narrow-curved pale almost creamy scales and nine or more 
posterior border-bristles to the mid lobe; metanotum deep 
brown ; pleurae deep blackish-brown with patches of flat white 
scales and pallid hairs. 
Abdomen black, basal segment with a few pale basal scales 
in the middle, brown hairs with pale reflections ; second segment 
with a median basal creamy-white spot, third to sixth with 
prominent basal white bands, the sixth and seventh with 
prominent yellow apical bands; the fourth with a basal 
lateral white spot, fifth to seventh with median lateral white 
spots, the last almost creamy-yellow ; venter mostly pale 
creamy-yellow. 
Legs deep brown, femora and tibiae speckled vith a few 
paler scales, under side of femora pale, a pale knee-spot and 
pale apex to the tibiae; first ^md second fore tarsals with 
basal white bands, a trace on the base of the metatarsi, in 
