Genus Culex . 
367 
Length .—5 mm. 
$ . Palpi long and thin, dark brown, acuminate, no hair 
tuft, a few dark hairs and chaetae; apex of proboscis swollen. 
Wings with relatively long fork-cells; first sub-marginal 
narrower and longer than the second posterior, its stem less than 
one-third the length of the cell; stem of the second posterior 
rather more than half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein 
nearly twice its own length distant from the mid. Fore and mid 
ungues unequal, both uniserrate, the larger with a large tooth, 
hind equal and simple. 
Length .—4 to 5 mm. 
Habitat .—Dahawangahary Hill, Nepal. 
Time of capture. —16. xi. 08. 
Observations .-—Described from two $ J s and one $ . A very 
marked Culex with obscure ornamentation, easily told by the long 
fork-cells, very thin veins and large wings and long legs. The 
male genitalia seem very marked, but there is not enough 
material to dissect them. 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Culex nigrocostalis. nov. sp. 
Very like a small C. fatigans or C. pallidocephala, but the 
thorax uniformly clothed with dull golden-brown scales, and the 
outer costal border of the wings very dark. 
9 • Head black, clothed with dull grey ragged narrow-curved 
scales, small dull grey flat lateral scales and black upright forked 
scales; clypeus deep brown, palpi and proboscis deep black; 
antennae deep brown with narrow pale bands. 
Thorax deep brown, clothed uniformly with small, hair-like, 
curved, dull golden-brown scales and deep brown chaetae, dull 
golden at their base; scutellum paler brown, with scanty dusky 
hair-like curved scales, dull golden in some lights, and six deep 
brown border-bristles to the mid lobe. 
Abdomen blackish-brown, with narrow basal white bands and 
golden-brown to golden border-bristles. 
Legs deep blackish-brown, unhanded, femora pale below, a 
few pale scales at the apices of the femora and tibiae; ungues 
small, equal, and simple. 
Wings with dark brown scales, the outer costal border and 
the first long vein and sub-costal black; first fork-cell longer and 
