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A Monograph of Cullcidae. 
Wings with rather short fork-cells, the first longer and 
narrower than the second which is rather broad, their bases 
about level, the stems nearly as long as the cells; mid cross-vein 
about twice as long as the supernumerary and in a straight line 
with it; posterior cross-vein about the same length as the mid 
about its own length distant from it. 
Length .■—5 ’ 2 mm. 
Habitat. —Madras Town (Madras) ; Hong Kong ; Shanghai ; 
China (Wiedemann). 
Additional locality. —Pampanga, Camp Stotsenberg, Angeles* 
P. I. (E. R. Whitmore). 
Time of capture. —31. x. 08. 
Note. —This is the only 4 of this Species I have seen ; so I 
have redescribed it. The specimen is in the Indian Museum* 
Calcutta. 
Culex procax. Skuse (1889). 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1742 (1889), Skuse; Mono. Culicid. 
I., 415 (1901). 
N. S. Wales; Queensland. 
Type in the Museum at Sydney, N. S. Wales. 
Culex quasirubithorax. nov. sp. 
Very similar to C. rubithorax , but no flat median scales on the 
head, the last hind tarsal dull white, and the fork-cells different. 
9 . Head deep brown, clothed with small narrow-curved, 
pale golden scales, which are denser and brighter, forming a 
border around the eyes, with numerous long black upright forked 
scales and some small, flat, pale dull lateral scales; palpi and 
proboscis black; antennae black, the basal segment bright 
ochreous with some small curved black hairs. 
Thorax rich chestnut-brown, with scattered narrow-curved 
golden scales and some dark ones (rubbed); chaetae black 
scutellum brown, with pale golden narrow-curved scales; border- 
bristles dark brown; metanotum chestnut-brown; pleurae 
brown, with patches of white scales and some black chaetae. 
Abdomen black, the segments with dull yellow median basal 
spots and white basal lateral ones; basal segment all black 
scaled, with brown hairs with pale golden reflections; posterior 
border-bristles brown, with golden reflections ; venter with many 
pale scales, apex testaceous ; hairs golden. 
