Genus Culex . 
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better developed apical abdominal bands, white bases and venter 
of femora, and the minute spot at apex of tibia.” 
The above is Miss Ludlow’s description. 
Type in the Army Medical Museum, Washington. 
Culex chloroventer. nov. sp. 
Thorax brown, ornamented with pale ochreous brown, the 
latter forming a curved band on each side, to some extent passing 
back to the scutellum. Abdomen unbanded, with basal white 
lateral spots ; venter green in life. Male clasper nearly straight. 
9 . Head brown with narrow-curved, dull golden scales over 
Fig. 166. 
Wing of Culex chloroventer . 9. n. sp. 
most of its surface, black, upright forked scales and dull, flat, 
creamy lateral ones ; palpi, proboscis, and antennae deep brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, unbanded, with basal white lateral 
spots, border-bristles dusky at base, pale at apex; venter sea- 
Fig. 167. 
Wing of Culex chloroventer . $. n. sp. 
A large specimen. 
green in life, when dead ochreous with pale basal bands and 
dusky apical ones. 
Legs brown, unbanded; femora pale below at the base; 
ungues equal and simple. 
