Genus Culex. 
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Legs black, under side of femora pale, especially on the hind 
legs, knee spot white ; fore legs with a narrow basal pale band on 
the metatarsi and first tarsals ; in the mid rather wider and on the 
second tarsal also, in the hind wider still, and on the first, second 
and third segment, and the last all pale ; fore and mid ungues 
equal and uniserrate, hind equal arid simple. 
Wings with the first fork-cell longer and narrower than the 
■second, its stem very nearly as long as the cell, its base nearly 
Fig. 157. 
Wing of Culex quasirubithorax. ?. n. sp. 
level with that of the second fork-cell, stem of the latter about 
as long as the cell; posterior cross-vein nearly twice its own 
length distant from the mid. 
Length. —4*5 mm. 
Habitat. —Kuranda, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations .—Described from 1 9 > the thorax slightly rubbed. 
It much resembles Culex rubithorax, Macq., but can at once be 
told by the last hind tarsal being pale, by the different squamose 
character of the head, the entirely black proboscis, and by the 
longer stem of the first fork-cell. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex rubithorax. Macquart (1850). 
Dipt. Exot. Suppl. IV., 9 (1850), Macquart; Mono. Culicid. I., 416 (1901) 
Theobald; Handbk. of Gnats, 412 (1902), Giles; Mono. Culicid. III., 
227 (1903), Theobald ; Journ. Trop. Med. VII., 368 (1904), Giles; Gen. 
Ins. Culicid. 26 (1905), Theobald; Phil. Journ. Sci. I., 9, 988 (1906), 
Banks. 
Tasmania ; S. Queensland. 
Additional locality. —Pampanga, Camp Stotsenberg, Angeles 
P. I. (E. B. Whitmore). 
