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cross-vein not quite its own length distant from the mid 
cross-vein. 
Halteres ochreous with some fuscous scales on the knob. 
Length. —6 mm. 
Habitat. —Ukhrul, Manipur, 6,400 ft., lat. 25 1ST., long. 
94-95 E. (Rev. W. P. Pettigrew). 
Time of capture. —viii. 08. 
Observations. —Described from a perfect ungorged 9 • Three 
Fig. 158. 
Wing of Culex pettigrewii . ?. Theobald. 
other 9’s were fully gorged and black. The marked character 
of this species is the pale scaled sub-costal vein. The pale scales 
also occur here and there on the upper surface of the first long 
vein. The abdomen in the type is very marked ; but in two of 
the others, which are somewhat rubbed, the spots on the segments 
are not so distinguishable. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Culex arabiensis. Patton (1905). 
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. XVI., 633 (1905). 
“ Thorax straw coloured with brown curved scales, with a 
dark line down the centre and two at the sides. Abdomen brown 
with apical black bands. Tarsi banded at all the joints, fore 
ungues unequal and uniserrate* 
9 . Head brown, covered with brown upright forked scales, 
* The much-damaged specimen sent me certainly did not show this 
peculiarity in the $ . No $ mosquito I have yet seen has this character ; 
the ungues are always equal. Probably^ an error was made, or Patton 
described an abnormality.—F. V. T. 
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