Genus Culex. 
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spots and golden border-bristles giving almost a banded appear¬ 
ance ; basal segments of male with traces of dull white bands. 
Legs unbanded. 
9. Head black with a median \/-shaped area of small 
narrow-curved golden scales, not reaching quite to the nape, 
dusky at the sides with dense black upright forked scales, which 
give the head a black appearance, no fork scales on the golden 
median area ; small flat dull white scales at the sides ; six black 
incurved long chaetae on each side on the eye borders; palpi and 
proboscis jet black; antennae thick, black. Palpi of three 
segments, the apical one longer than the other two. 
Thorax rich deep brown with bright bronzy narrow-curved 
scales, some showing dull golden reflections especially over the 
roots of the wings ; chaetae black ; scutellum pale ochreous with 
very pale golden scales; metanotum brown ; pleurae brown and 
grey with patches of flat white scales. 
Abdomen with dull ochreous integument covered with small 
flat dark scales with dull violet reflections, black in certain lights, 
unbanded, but the scales are scanty at the bases of the segments, 
this and the five brown and golden tipped border-bristles give a 
quasi-banded appearance; basal segment ochraceous with a squarish 
median patch of black scales and fine long brown hairs with 
golden tips ; the chaetae in certain lights pale golden ; laterally are 
basal white spots ; venter with basal half of segments pale scaled. 
Legs uniformly black except base and under side of the femora, 
a small pale knee spot on each leg ; ungues equal and simple. 
Wings with rather long fork-cells, the first sub-marginal cell 
much longer and narrower than the second posterior, its base 
nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one-fourth the length 
