Genus Culex. 
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Legs uniformly brown, with dull ochreous reflections, paler 
beneath ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with the fork-cells long ; the first longer and narrower 
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than the second posterior, its base nearer the base of the wing, 
its stem about one-third the length of the cell; stem of the 
second about half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein 
nearly its own length distant from the mid ; scales of typical 
Culex form. 
Length. —5 to 5 • 5 mm. 
(J. Similar to 9 > but the abdominal banding very pro¬ 
nounced. Palpi acuminate, black at the apices, paler basally, 
hairs dark ; antennae with flaxen brown plume-hairs, paler at 
their apices. Fork-scales dense, dark behind as well as at the 
sides. Fore and mid ungues unequal, the larger with a large 
tooth, the smaller with a small one, hind equal and simple. 
Genitalia with a large broad foliate plate. 
Length. —5 to 6 mm. 
Habitat. —Obuasi, Ashanti (Dr. Graham). 
Time of capture. —8. i. 08 ; 10. xii. 07 ; 20. vi. 07 ; 17. vii. 07 ; 
7. viii. 07 ; 20. ix. 07 ; 18. 19. x. 07 ; 13. xi. 07. 
Observations. —Caught on bush paths. Described from a 
series of several males and females. It is very marked on 
account of the pronounced pale scaled thorax. The 9’s show 
some variation in regards to abdominal banding, some showing 
it much more prominently than others. 
Type in the British Museum. 
Culex frickii. Ludlow (1906). 
Canad. Entomo. XXXVIII., 132 (1906). 
“ 9 • Head covered with pale ochraceous, almost white scales, 
long curved ones, heavily intermingled with dark brown forked 
scales on the occiput and vertex, flat lateral scales, light around 
the eyes, with a few dark bristles projecting forward; antennae 
brown, verticels and pubescence brown, first joint with a few 
light scales, basal joint covered with ‘frost’ and a few white 
scales; palpi dark brown, distal joint small; proboscis brown; 
clypeus brown, with ‘ frost ’; eyes dark brown. 
Thorax brown ; prothoracic lobes covered with pale ochraceous 
scales and dark brown bristles; mesonotum with narrow-curved 
dark brown scales, a golden-brown in some lights, a few pale 
ochraceous ones hardly forming a line on the lateral margins and 
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